parma

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹmə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə

From parmigiana.

parma (plural parmas)

1. (Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style.

   The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.

From Latin parma.

parma (plural parmae)

1. (historical) A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.

• parma wallaby (etymologically unrelated)

• AMRAP, param, praam

• IPA^(key): [ˈparma]

parma f (relational adjective parmový)

1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

• “parma”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “parma”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “parma”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrmɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝rmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑrmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): par‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): par‧ma

parma (dialectal)

1. alternative form of paarma

• palma

Perhaps a back-formation from parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.^[1]

Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.^[2]

• parma: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.ma]
• parma: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.ma]
• parmā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.maː]
• parmā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpar.ma]

parma f (genitive parmae); first declension

1. a parma; a round shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
2. (poetic) any shield
3. (poetic) a Thraex; a gladiator armed with a parma

First-declension noun.

• parmātus
• parmula

• → Ancient Greek: πάρμη (pármē)

• “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "parma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• parma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “parma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “parma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “parma”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “parma”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

• pamma

parma f

1. palm (of the hand)