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palmo

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See also: palmó

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spanish and Portuguese palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and pam.

Noun

palmo (plural palmos)

  1. (historical, measure) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
  2. (historical, measure) A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually equivalent to about 22 cm.

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

  • (Spanish unit): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), pulgada (1⁄9 palmo), coto (1⁄2 palmo), sesma (2⁄3 palmo), pie (1+1⁄3 palmos), codo (2 palmos), vara (4 palmos)
  • (Portuguese unit): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), polegada (1⁄8 palmo), Portuguese foot (1+1⁄2 palmos), covado (3 palmos), vara (5 palmos), passo (7+1⁄2 palmos), toesa (9 palmos), braça (10 palmos)
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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalmo/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Hyphenation: pal‧mo

Noun

palmo (accusative singular palmon, plural palmoj, accusative plural palmojn)

  1. palm tree

Hyponyms

Meronyms

  • palmaĵo, palmobranĉo (“palm branch”)

Derived terms

  • palmodimanĉo, palmofesto (“Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter)”)
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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese palmo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palmus. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

Pronunciation

Noun

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. (historical) palmo, Spanish span, traditional Spanish unit of length
    • 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:
      Et avia ẽno rrostro hũu palmo et meo en longo et ẽna barua hũu palmo, et ẽno nariz hũu meo palmo; et ẽna testa hũu palmo et pouquo mais
      He had a handspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a handspan, and half a handspan in the nose; and in the front he had one handspan and a little more
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 159:
      Et se algũu quiser dar algũu pano de lenço para cobrir o altar de Santiago, deueo a dar de noue palmos en ancho et de viinte et hũu en longo.
      And if anyone would want to give a cloth of linen for covering Saint Jame's altar, it must be nine handspans in wide and twenty-one in long
    Synonym: cuarta
  2. (games) pitch and toss, a game in which coins are thrown at a mark

References

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Ido

Etymology 1

From Esperanto palmo (“palm tree”), from English palm, French palme, Italian palma,Spanish palma, Italian palma, Portuguese palmeira, Russian па́льма (pálʹma), ultimately from Latin palma (“palm tree, date”).

Noun

palmo (plural palmi)

  1. palm branch
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English palm, Spanish and Italian palma, ultimately from Latin palma (“palm of the hand, hand”).

Noun

palmo (plural palmi)

  1. (anatomy) palm (of hand)
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Italian

Etymology

From Latin palmus, from palma (“hand”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpal.mo/
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Hyphenation: pàl‧mo

Noun

palmo m (plural palmi)

  1. span (of hand)
  2. (regional) palm (of the hand)
    Synonym: palma

Anagrams

Latin

FWOTD – 22 March 2015

Etymology

From palma (“hand, palm of the hand; branch”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

Verb

palmō (present infinitive palmāre, perfect active palmāvī, supine palmātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to make the print or mark of the palm of the hand
  2. (transitive) to tie up a vine

Conjugation

   Conjugation of palmō (first conjugation)
More information indicative, singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • “palmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “palmo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Spanish and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mu/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpaw.mo/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mo]

Noun

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. (historical, measure) palmo, a traditional unit of length about equal to 22 cm
  2. (historical, measure) square palmo, a traditional unit of area about equal to 480 cm²
  3. (historical, measure) cubic palmo, a traditional unit of volume about equal to 10.6 L, particularly used in measuring masonry
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Verb

palmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

Further reading

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalmo/ [ˈpal.mo]
  • Rhymes: -almo
  • Syllabification: pal‧mo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin palmus, from palma. Doublet of palma. Cognate with Portuguese and Galician palmo and Catalan pam and palm.

Alternative forms

Noun

palmo m (plural palmos)

  1. span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)
  2. (figuratively) inch, ounce (any trivially small distance or amount of something)
  3. (historical) palmo, Spanish span (a traditional unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm)
    Synonym: cuarta
Coordinate terms
  • (traditional unit of length): dedo (1⁄12 palmo), pulgada (1⁄9 palmo), coto (1⁄2 palmo), sesma (2⁄3 palmo), pie (1+1⁄3 palmos), codo (2 palmos), vara (4 palmos)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: palmo, pam

Etymology 2

Verb

palmo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

Further reading

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