paume

From Middle French paulme, from Old French paume, palme, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Doublet of palme (“palm leaf”).

• IPA^(key): /pom/

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• Homophones: paumes (general), pomme, pommes (southern France)

paume f (plural paumes)

1. (anatomy) palm (of the hand)
2. ellipsis of jeu de paume (“real tennis”)

• jeu de paume
• longue paume
• paumer

paume

1. inflection of paumer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “paume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• palme, pame, pasme, paulme

From Latin palma. There is no formal way to decide whether the word was inherited or not. The Trésor informatisé considers the anatomic sense to be inherited and the botanic sense to be a borrowing, but it is not clear whether this refers to Old French or merely to the modern descendants (of which palme is relatinized).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯mə/

paume oblique singular, f (oblique plural paumes, nominative singular paume, nominative plural paumes)

1. (anatomy) palm (of the hand)
2. (botany) palm (tree; leaf thereof)
3. (games) jeu de paume

• Middle French: paulme
  • French: paume
• Norman: paûmé