paramus

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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.ra.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.ra.mus]

paramus m (genitive paramī); second declension

1. (Spain, dialectal) a fallow plateau or highland; a wasteland

Second-declension noun.

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

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

parāmus

1. first-person plural present/perfect 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