palmo
Spanish, noun
palmo is spelled P-A-L-M-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 36,450th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palmo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of palmar. With an accent, palmó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of palmar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Distancia desde la punta del meñique de una mano abierta hasta la punta del pulgar”.
What does palmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinespan, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)
- 2
masculineinch, ounce (any trivially small distance or amount of something)
- 3
masculinepalmo, Spanish span (a traditional unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of palmar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of palmar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Distancia desde la punta del meñique de una mano abierta hasta la punta del pulgar. 2. Medida de longitud desusada, equivalente a la cuarta parte de la vara, dividida en 12 partes iguales o dedos, de aproximadamente unos 21 centímetros, que se basó en el largo de una mano abierta y extendida. 3. Palmo menor. 4. Juego que usan los muchachos tirando unas monedas contra una pared, y el que acierta a hacer caer la suya un palmo o menos de la del otro, gana la moneda.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of palmo
- palmos plural
- palma alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to palmo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palmo in Spanish?
palmo appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).