LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

palam1

palam (not comparable)
Classical[ˈpa.ɫãː]Ecclesiastical[ˈpaː.lam]

Meaning

  1. not comparablewithout concealment, openly, publicly, undisguisedly, plainly, unambiguously

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

pălam, adv. and prep. locative form; cf.: clam, perperam, etc.; root pal-, pla-; as in πλατύς, planus; cf. pellis; hence, on the surface, on the open plain, and so,
I. openly, publicly, undisguisedly, plainly (cf.: publice, vulgo, aperte; opp.: clam, occulte, secreto, etc.; class.).
I. Lit.: haec quae in foro palam Syracusis ... gesta sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 33, § 81: auferre argentum palam atque aperte, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 68; so, non ex insidiis, sed aperte ac palam elaboratur, Cic. Or. 12, 38; and: palam agere coepit et aperte dicere occidendum Milonem, id. Mil. 9, 25; cf. also Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 18: PALAM LVCI, Tab. Bant. vers. 15; so ib. vers. 22; cf.: arma in templum Castoris luce palam comportarentur, Cic. Pis. 10, 23: ut luce palam in foro saltet, id. Off. 3, 24, 93: gaudia clamque palamque, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 247 Vahl.); Cic. Cael. 9, 20: non per praestigias, sed palam, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53: non occulte sed palam, id. ib. 2, 4, 22, § 49: palam ... obscurius, id. Ac. 2, 5, 13: bestiae furtim fruuntur (frumento), domini palam et libere, id. N. D. 2, 63, 157: palam ante oculos omnium, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65; Verg. A. 9, 153: nec palam nec secreto, Liv. 44, 34; cf. Tac. A. 2, 72: palam ... intus, id. ib. 4, 1: quod palam abnuerat inter secreta convivii largitur, id. H. 2, 57, in late Lat.: in palam, Vulg. Sap. 14, 17; id. Luc. 8, 17. —
II. Transf.
A. Palam est or factum est, it is public, well known: palam est res, Plaut. Aul. 4, 9, 18: haec commemoro quae sunt palam, Cic. Pis. 5, 11: palam ante oculos omnium esse, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 26, § 65: palam factum est, id. Att. 13, 21, 3: hāc re palam factā, Nep. Han. 7, 7; cf.: palam facere suis, quo loco Eumenes esset, id. ib. 11, 1: hujus de morte ut palam factum est, id. Dion. 10, 2; cf.: cum exspirasset Tarquinius, celatā morte, suas opes firmavit: tum demum palam factum est, etc., Liv. 1, 41 fin.: et nondum palam facto vivi mortuique, id. 22, 55, 3: cui palam facti parricidii obnoxius erat, id. 40, 56, 3; so (euphemist.), ut de Claudio palam factum est, when the death of Claudius was announced: cogitur Cato incumbens gladio simul de se ac de republicā palam facere, Sen. Tranq. 16, 1: idem nobis prophetae palam faciunt, Lact. 7, 7, 13.—With subject-clause: pisces audire palam est, it is well known, Plin. 10, 70, 89, § 193: dicere, to say openly, Suet. Caes. 27: palam ferente Hannibale ab se Minucium, se ab Fabio victum, making no secret of it, Liv. 22, 29, 6.—
B. Prep., with abl., analogous to clam and coram, before, in the presence of one (not ante-Aug., and mostly poet.): te palam, Hor. Epod. 11, 19: meque palam de me tuto male saepe loquuntur, Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 39: meque palam, id. A. A. 2, 549: Marte palam, id. ib. 2, 569; Albin. 1, 444: rem creditori palam populo solvit, Liv. 6, 14, 5: palam omnibus, id. 25, 18: palam senatu, Aur. Vict. Caes. 5.

Origins

Either: * the ending was taken from clam, * it is a locative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂emi or *pl̥h₂ēm, * it is an accusative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂eh₂m all from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic полѥ (polje) (whence Bulgarian and Russian поле (pole, “field”)), Old Armenian հող (hoł, “earth, soil”), German Westfalen.

Descendants
  • Italianpalese
  • Catalanpalès
preposition
palam2
palam (+ ablative)
Classical[ˈpa.ɫãː]Ecclesiastical[ˈpaː.lam]

Meaning

  1. with ablativeopenly in the presence of someone, openly before someone

Origins

Either: * the ending was taken from clam, * it is a locative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂emi or *pl̥h₂ēm, * it is an accusative Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂eh₂m all from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic полѥ (polje) (whence Bulgarian and Russian поле (pole, “field”)), Old Armenian հող (hoł, “earth, soil”), German Westfalen.

Quick answers

What does palam mean in Latin?
palam, a adverb, means “without concealment, openly, publicly, undisguisedly, plainly, unambiguously”.
How do you pronounce palam?
In classical Latin, [ˈpa.ɫãː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈpaː.lam].