palmer
See also: Palmer
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑmɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːmə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English palmer, from Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier (“palmer”), from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
- (now historical) A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
- 1674, Thomas Staveley, The Romish horseleech : or, an impartial account of the intolerable charge of Popery to this nation, p. 93:
- The Pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the Palmer had none. The Pilgrim travelled to some certain, designed place or places, but the Palmer to all. The Pilgrim went as his own charge, but the Palmer professed wilful poverty and went upon alms.
- 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], OCLC 927360557, stanza I, page 49:
- Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! / Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! / They could not in the self-same mansion dwell / Without some stir of heart, some malady; [...]
- 1674, Thomas Staveley, The Romish horseleech : or, an impartial account of the intolerable charge of Popery to this nation, p. 93:
- (archaic) Abbreviation of palmerworm.
Translations
a pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary
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Etymology 2
From noun.
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
- A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.
Etymology 3
From the transitive verb to palm.
Noun
palmer (plural palmers)
- One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
References
palmer (pilgrim) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - palmer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- LaPerm, Marple, ampler, lamper, relamp, repalm
Catalan
Alternative forms
- palmera
Etymology
palma + -er
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /pəlˈme/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /palˈmeɾ/
Noun
palmer m (plural palmers)
- palm tree
Further reading
- “palmer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Verb
palmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palmō
Middle English
FWOTD – 28 March 2017
A medieval stained glass window depicting pilgrims, from the Cathedral of Canterbury, England.
Alternative forms
- palmere
Etymology
Named for the palm branches they were wont to bring back from the Levant to signify their pilgrimage. From Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier, from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpal.mər(ə)/
Noun
palmer (plural palmeres)
- A pilgrim who has been to the Holy Land.
- ca. 1370–90, William Langland, Piers Plowman,
- Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together
- To seek for Saint James and the saintes in Rome ...
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, line 13–15:
- Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken strange stroundes
To ferne halwes, kouthe in sondry londes.- Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.
- Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
- ca. 1370–90, William Langland, Piers Plowman,
- (by extension) Any pilgrim or crusader.
Descendants
- English: palmer
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
palmer m
- indefinite plural of palme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
palmer f
- (non-standard since 1959) indefinite plural of palme
Swedish
Noun
palmer
- indefinite plural of palm.