palmo

See also: palmó

English

Alternative forms

• palma, pam

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

• Portuguese span, Spanish span; cuarta (Spanish); span, handspan, palm (in Spanish or Portuguese contexts)

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

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpalmo]
• Rhymes: -almo
• Hyphenation: pal‧mo

Noun

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

1. palm tree

Hyponyms

• kokospalmo (“coconut palm”)

Meronyms

• palmaĵo, palmobranĉo (“palm branch”)

Derived terms

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalmo̝/

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “palmo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “palmo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “palmo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “palmo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “palmo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• palmeto (“palmette”)
• palmiero (“palm tree”)

 

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)

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

• lampo

Latin

FWOTD – 22 March 2015

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.moː/, [ˈpäɫ̪moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mo/, [ˈpälmo]

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)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	palmō	palmās	palmat	palmāmus	palmātis	palmant
	imperfect	palmābam	palmābās	palmābat	palmābāmus	palmābātis	palmābant
	future	palmābō	palmābis	palmābit	palmābimus	palmābitis	palmābunt
	perfect	palmāvī	palmāvistī	palmāvit	palmāvimus	palmāvistis	palmāvērunt, palmāvēre
	pluperfect	palmāveram	palmāverās	palmāverat	palmāverāmus	palmāverātis	palmāverant
	future perfect	palmāverō	palmāveris	palmāverit	palmāverimus	palmāveritis	palmāverint
passive	present	palmor	palmāris, palmāre	palmātur	palmāmur	palmāminī	palmantur
	imperfect	palmābar	palmābāris, palmābāre	palmābātur	palmābāmur	palmābāminī	palmābantur
	future	palmābor	palmāberis, palmābere	palmābitur	palmābimur	palmābiminī	palmābuntur
	perfect	palmātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	palmātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	palmātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	palmem	palmēs	palmet	palmēmus	palmētis	palment
	imperfect	palmārem	palmārēs	palmāret	palmārēmus	palmārētis	palmārent
	perfect	palmāverim	palmāverīs	palmāverit	palmāverīmus	palmāverītis	palmāverint
	pluperfect	palmāvissem	palmāvissēs	palmāvisset	palmāvissēmus	palmāvissētis	palmāvissent
passive	present	palmer	palmēris, palmēre	palmētur	palmēmur	palmēminī	palmentur
	imperfect	palmārer	palmārēris, palmārēre	palmārētur	palmārēmur	palmārēminī	palmārentur
	perfect	palmātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	palmātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	palmā	—	—	palmāte	—
	future	—	palmātō	palmātō	—	palmātōte	palmantō
passive	present	—	palmāre	—	—	palmāminī	—
	future	—	palmātor	palmātor	—	—	palmantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		palmāre	palmāvisse	palmātūrum esse	palmārī	palmātum esse	palmātum īrī
participles		palmāns	—	palmātūrus	—	palmātus	palmandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		palmandī	palmandō	palmandum	palmandō	palmātum	palmātū

Derived terms

• palmātus

Related terms

• palma
• palmāris
• palmārium
• palmārius
• palmēnsis
• palmes
• palmētum
• palmeus
• palmiceus, palmicius
• palmifer
• palmiger
• palmipēs
• palmōsus
• palmula
• palmulāris

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.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• palma

Pronunciation

 

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

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mu/ [ˈpaɫ.mu]

• Rhymes: -almu, -awmu
• Hyphenation: pal‧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

• (unit of length): dedo (¹⁄₁₂ palmo), polegada (¹⁄₈ palmo), pé (1+¹⁄₂ palmo), côvado (3 palmos), vara (5 palmos), passo (7+¹⁄₂ palmos), toesa (9 palmos), braça (10 palmos)
• (unit of area): vara (25 palmos)

Etymology 2

Verb

palmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

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

• palma

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

• palmo a palmo
• palmo de ribera
• palmo mayor
• palmo menor

 

Descendants

• English: palmo, pam

Etymology 2

Verb

palmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

Further reading

• “palmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014