palmus

From Ancient Greek.

palmus (uncountable)

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

• Sampul, ampuls

• palma

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

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

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.

Second-declension noun.

• (unit of length): palma (medieval)

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

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

• amplus, plumas