palmo

• palma, pam

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

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.

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

• (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)

Borrowed from Latin palma.

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

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

1. palm tree

• kokospalmo (“coconut palm”)

• palmaĵo, palmobranĉo (“palm branch”)

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalmo̝/

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

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

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”).

palmo (plural palmi)

1. palm branch

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

palmo (plural palmi)

1. (anatomy) palm (of hand)

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

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

palmo m (plural palmi)

1. span (of hand)
2. (regional) palm (of the hand)

   Synonym: palma

• lampo

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaɫ.moː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpal.mo]

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

• palmātus

• “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.

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

• palma

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

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

• (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)

palmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

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

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

• palma

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

• (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)

• English: palmo, pam

palmo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palmar

• “palmo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024