English → Latin
“palm” in Latin
palmapalm of the hand, hand; blade of an oar; palm tree; date treepalmuladiminutive of palma; the palm of the hand; the fruit of the palm tree; datedactylusa sort of muscle; a kind of grape; a sort of grasspalmuspalm; palm, (especially) the Roman palm of about 7.4 cm.volōto wish, to please; to want; to mean, to intendvictōriavictorypalmārisMeasuring the length, width or breadth of a hand or palm.; Full of palms.; That deserves the palmary or prize, superior,palmāriusOf or pertaining to palm trees.
The English word palm itself goes back to Latin palma.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
palm
A kind of tree, palma (also, a branch of palm, Plin.).
Fruit of this tree, palma (Plin.); palmula (Varr.); dactylus (Pall.).
The inner part of the hand, palma; palmus; vola (hand spread out).
Figuratively, Triumph, palma; victoria: deserving of the palm, palmaris (Cic.); palmarius (Terentianus).
Measure of length, palmus (☞ the palmus minor was the breadth of four fingers joined together, Vitr.; the major was a span, or twelve Roman inches, Varr.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for palm?
- The usual Latin words for “palm” are palma, palmula, dactylus; also palmus, volō, victōria. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.