palpo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpal.po/
• Rhymes: -alpo
• Hyphenation: pàl‧po

palpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palpare

• lappo, lappò, loppa, polpa

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

From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to swing, shake”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “swing, shake, shake loose”), Old English fēlan (“to feel”). More at feel.

palpō (present infinitive palpāre, perfect active palpāvī, supine palpātum); first conjugation

1. to touch softly, stroke, pat
2. (by extension) to caress, flatter, coax, wheedle; soothe

From palpō (“touch softly stroke; flatter”) +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix).

palpō m (genitive palpōnis); third declension

1. flatterer

Third-declension noun.

• “palpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palpo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• palpo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

palpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palpar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalpo/ [ˈpal.po]
• Rhymes: -alpo
• Syllabification: pal‧po

Borrowed from Latin palpum (“caress”).

palpo m (plural palpos)

1. palp; palpus

palpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of palpar

• “palpo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025