depalmo

Latin

Etymology

From dē- (of; from) +‎ palmō (to make the print or mark of the palm of one's hand).

Verb

depalmō (present infinitive depalmāre, perfect active depalmāvī, supine depalmātum); first conjugation

  1. to strike with the open hand, to box on the ear; to slap.
    • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae XXI.XII:Translation
      Eum servus sequebatur ferens crumenam plenam assium; ut quemque depalmaverat, numerari statim secundum Duodecim Tabulas quinque et viginti asses iubebat.
      • 1927 translation by John C. Rolfe
        A slave followed him with a purse full of asses; as often as he had buffeted anyone, he ordered twenty-five asses to be counted out at once, according to the provision of the Twelve Tables.

Conjugation

Descendants

  • English: depalmate

References

  • depalmo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • depalmo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • John C. Rolfe (1927), chapter 1, in The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius[1], volume 3, Cambridge,Mass.: London: Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd, →OCLC, section 13, page 411