English
palmate
Palmate comes from Latin palmātus ‘hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ‘flat’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleh₂-‘flat’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥h₂meh₂reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*palamāreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalma‘palm, palm-tree’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalmātus‘hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped’
- Englishearliest quotation 1909palmate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleh₂-‘flat’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*pl̥h₂meh₂reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*palamāreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalma‘palm, palm-tree’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalmātus‘hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped’
- Englishearliest quotation 1909palmate
Earliest quotation: 1909, Eleanor Stockhouse Atkinson, In the Tree Tops: “The horse chestnut, buckeye and hickory trees have palmate…”
Formed from palm + -ate
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ‘flat’
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Proto-Italic *palamā
Latin palma ‘palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand’
Old English palm ‘palm-tree, palm-branch’
Middle English palme ‘palm (tree)’
English palm
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ‘flat’
field, floor, explain, plane, plain, explanation, clan, archipelago, playa, explanatory, fluke, placenta, planar, esplanade, flounder, plantar, implacable, pelagic, lech, flay, polonium, placate, veld, palatine, llano, floe, planta, purdah, 47 more
through Latin palma ‘palm, palm-tree’
Today it means
adj Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- / palmate