The corpus record — Latin

palmeus

palmeus · adj

A hand'sbreadth

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

palmĕus — Lewis & Short

palmĕus, a, um, adj.id..

I A hand'sbreadth, or palm, in length, width, etc.: orchis herba, caule palmeo, etc., Plin. 26, 10, 62, § 95.—

II Of or made of palms, palm-: tabulae, Vitr. 10, 20: tegetes, Col. 5, 15: vinum, Plin. 12, 17, 40, § 79: sporta, Pall. 3, 27.

In the wild

palmeum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p20
palmeis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.5.15
palmea Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.14.p3
palmeis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.28.p1
palmeo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p19
palmeis Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.14.3

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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