The corpus record — Latin

palmes

palmes · m

a young branch

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Where it lives

Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 57 · 7.24/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
De Corona 2 · 4.11/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Silvae 4 · 1.6/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

palmĕs — Lewis & Short

palmĕs, ĭtis, m.1. palma, II. E.,

I a young branch or shoot of a vine, a vinesprig, vine-sprout (syn. pampinus).

I Lit.: palmites vitium sarmenta appellantur, quod in modum palmarum humanarum virgulas quasi digitos edunt, Fest. p. 222 Müll.: palmitum duo genera sunt, alterum pampinarium, alterum fructuarium, Col. 5, 6, 26 sq.; id. 3, 10, 14; 4, 22, 10; Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 175; 14, 1, 3, § 10: jam laeto turgent in palmite gemmae, Verg. E. 7, 48: stratus humi palmes, Juv. 8, 78; Ov. F. 1, 152: ego sum vitis, vos palmites, Vulg. Johan. 15, 5.—

II Transf.

A A vine; a vineyard: Icario nemorosus palmite Gaurus, Stat. S. 3, 1, 147; Mart. 8, 40, 1.—

B In gen., a bough, branch: crudus arboris, Luc. 4, 317: palmites arborum, Curt. 4, 3, 10 (where Mützell reads palmas); Plin. 13, 4, 7, § 30: opaco palmite bacae, Claud. Nupt. Hon. 217.

In the wild

palmites Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.20.5
palmite Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 31.39
palmitem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.22.p5
palmite Claudian, Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 4.20
palmite Statius, Silvae 5.1.48
palmites Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.5.16

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