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From parmigiana.

parma

1. (Australia) A dish cooked in the parmigiana style

   The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.

From Latin parma.

parma (plural parmae)

1. A small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry.

• param, praam

parma f

1. barbel (freshwater fish of the genus Barbus)

• parma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• parma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

parma

1. gadfly

From parmula, dissimilated from palmula, from palma (“hand”), referring to the shield being handheld.[1]

Or, borrowed from a Celtic word.[2]

• palma

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ma/

parma f (genitive parmae); first declension

1. a parma; a small shield carried by the infantry and cavalry
2. (poetic) any shield
3. (poetic) a Thraex; a gladiator armed with a parma
4. vocative singular of parma

First declension.

• parmula

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.maː/

parmā

1. ablative singular of parma

• parma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parma in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• parma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• parma in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parma in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• parma in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• parma in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press