paramus

Possibly from Paleo-Hispanic,^[1] from a superlative of Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before”) meaning "the highest" vel sim. Cognate with, for example, Pali parama (“superior, excellent”).

This same element is present in Hispanic autochthonous personal names (Anparamo), theonyms (Paramaecus) and toponyms (Paramica) recorded in Roman inscriptions, or by Greek or Roman authors.

paramus m (genitive paramī); second declension

1. (Iberia, dialectal) A fallow plateau or highland, a wasteland.

Second-declension noun.

• Old Galician-Portuguese: paranho
  • Galician: paraño
  • Portuguese: paranho
• Spanish: páramo
  • → English: paramo

parāmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of parō

• paramus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Clements, J. Clancy (2009) “The General Socio-Historical Context of Portuguese and Castilian [2 - The general socio-historical context of Portuguese and Castilian]”, in The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact), Cambridge University Press, published 2009, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30
• Adams, J. N. (2007) The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 425-426