# palmo
## 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)
* (historical, measure) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
* (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)

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palma.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈpalmo]
* Rhymes: -almo
* Hyphenation: pal‧mo

### Noun

palmo (accusative singular palmon, plural palmoj, accusative plural palmojn)
* 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: /ˈpalmo̝/

### Noun

palmo m (plural palmos)
* (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 maisHe 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
* (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: 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

## 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)
* 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)
* (anatomy) palm (of hand)

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpal.mo/
* Rhymes: -almo
* Hyphenation: pàl‧mo

### Noun

palmo m (plural palmi)
* span (of hand)
* (regional) palm (of the hand)
    Synonym: palma

### Anagrams

* lampo

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

palmō (present infinitive palmāre, perfect active palmāvī, supine palmātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to make the print or mark of the palm of the hand
* (transitive) to tie up a vine

#### 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: /ˈpaw.mu/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.mu/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpaw.mo/ [ˈpaʊ̯.mo]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpal.mu/ [ˈpaɫ.mu]
* Rhymes: -almu, -awmu
* Hyphenation: pal‧mo

#### Noun

palmo m (plural palmos)
* (historical, measure) palmo, a traditional unit of length about equal to 22 cm
* (historical, measure) square palmo, a traditional unit of area about equal to 480 cm²
* (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
* first-person singular present indicative of palmar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)
* (figuratively) inch, ounce (any trivially small distance or amount of something)
* (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
* first-person singular present indicative of palmar

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10