palam

Either:

• the ending was taken from clam,
• it is a locative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂emi or *pl̥h₂ēm,
• it is an accusative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂eh₂m

all from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic полѥ (polje) (whence Bulgarian and Russian поле (pole, “field”)), Old Armenian հող (hoł, “earth, soil”), German Westfalen.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ɫãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.lam]

palam (not comparable)

1. without concealment, openly, publicly, undisguisedly, plainly, unambiguously

   Synonyms: pūblicē, apertē, prōpalam, vulgō

   Antonym: clam

• prōpalam

• ⇒ Italian: palese
• ⇒ Catalan: palès

palam (+ ablative)

1. openly in the presence of someone, openly before someone

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ɫãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.lam]

pālam

1. accusative singular of pāla

• “palam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare