palmus

From Ancient Greek.

palmus (uncountable)

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

• ampuls

• palma

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mus/, [ˈpaɫ.mʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.mus/

palmus m (genitive palmī); second declension

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

• (unit of length): palma (medieval)

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

Second declension.

• Catalan: pam, palm
• Galician: palmo
• Italian: palmo
• Portuguese: palmo
• Spanish: palmo

• palmus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palmus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

• plumas