palmus

From Ancient Greek.

palmus (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A rhythmic tic or throb, such as a convulsion or the heartbeat.

• Sampul, ampuls

• palma

From Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂m- (“palm of the hand”).

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

palmus m (genitive palmī); second declension

1. (anatomy) palm

   Synonyms: vola, palma, palpus

2. (unit of measure, Classical Latin) palm, (especially) the Roman palm of about 7.4 cm.

   Quis mēnsus est pugillō aquās, et caelōs palmō ponderāvit?

   Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?

Second-declension noun.

• (unit of length): palma (medieval)

• (unit of length): digitus (¼ palm), palmus maior (3 palms), pes (4 palms)

• “palmus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "palmus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “palmus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palmus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palmus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• amplus, plumas