Palmo, palmas, palmâre. Colum. To binde togither.A palmitibus verbum ductum. Palmare.Quintil.To marke or print with the hand.A palma manus deducitur.
Palmus, palmi, m. g. Bud. Plin. A measure of an hand breadth.Palmus maior.Twelue fingers or a spanne.Palmus minor.Halfe a foote.Palmum neutro genere etiam dicitur. Vitruuius.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
palmo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [1. palma]. I.To make the print or mark of the palm of one's hand, Quint. Decl. 1, 12; v. in the foll.P. a.— II.To tie up a vine: palmare hoc est materias alligare, Col. 11, 2, 96.—Hence, palmātus, a, um, P. a.A.Marked with the palm of a hand: palmatus paries, bearing the mark of a (bloody) hand, Quint. Decl. 1, 11 and 12, pp. 30 and 31 Burm.: cervi palmati,
with antlers shaped like the palm of a hand
, Capitol. Gord. 3 fin.—B.Containing the figure of a palm-tree: lapis, Plin. 36, 18, 29, 134.— 2.Worked or embroidered with palmbranches: tunica, usually worn by generals in their triumphal processions, Liv. 10, 7; 30, 15fin.: togae, Mart. 7, 2, 8: vestis, Val. Max. 9, 1, n. 5.—Also, subst.: palmāta, ae, f., Vop. Prob. 1, 5 fin.; 8, 6; 8; Pacat. Pan. ad Theod. 9; Sid. Carm. 5, 4: palmatus consul, clothed with the palmata tunica, Hier. Ep. 23, 3: statua, Treb. Poll. Claud. 2.
palmus, i, m. [1. palma], the palm of the hand. I.Lit.: manūs palmum, Vitr. 2, 3: Graeci antiqui doron palmum vocabant: et ideo dora munera, quia manu darentur, Plin. 35, 14, 49, 171.—II.Transf., as a measure of length, a span, or twelvedigits, Varr. R. R. 3, 7: amomum frutex myrtuosus, palmi altitudine, Plin. 12, 13, 28, 48: minor, a smaller measure, a palm, or four digits, acc. to Vitr. 3, 1, 5.
