The corpus record — Latin

palmaris

palmaris · adj

A hand's-breadth

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
In C. Verrem 4 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Naturalis Historia 12 · 0.3/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

palmāris — Lewis & Short

palmāris, e, adj.1. palma.

I A hand's-breadth, or palm, in length, width, etc.: virgulae, Varr. R. R. 1, 35: spatia, Col. 8, 3; 11, 3: scrobes, Pall. 3, 24: palmarem in minutiem contrahi, Arn. 6, 204.—

II Of palms, full of palms, palm-: lucus, Amm. 24, 4, 7.—

B Trop., that merits the palm or prize, excellent (class.): statua, Cic. Phil. 6, 5, 15: sententia, id. N. D. 1, 8, 20: dea, the goddess of victory, because she is represented with a palm-branch, App. M. 2, p. 116, 2.

In the wild

palmaribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.4.7
palmarum Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.87
palmaris Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.20
palmarum Apuleius, Florida 15
palmarum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.16
palmarum Suetonius, Nero 5.2

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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