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palmam

palmam is a Latin form of palma, meaning “palm of the hand, hand; palm tree; palm branch (of victory), victory”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 1.36: … men et in medullis populi Romani ac visceribus haerebant! Nisi forte Accio tum plaudi et sexagesimo post anno palmam dari, non Bruto putabatis, qui ludis suis ita caruit ut in illo apparatissimo spectaculo studium populus Roma …

Martial, Epigrammata 4.23.4: Palmam Callimachus, Thalia, de se

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.24.1: … quo quemque in loco et honore ponat, his versibus suis demonstrate: Multós incertos cértare hanc rem vidimus, Palmám poetae cómico cui déferant. Eum méo iudicio errórem dissolvám tibi, Ut, cóntra si quis séntiat, nihil séntiat …

All forms of palma (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.