different between palmar vs dorsum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palmaris. May be decomposed as palm +? -ar.

Adjective

palmar (comparative more palmar, superlative most palmar)

1. (anatomy, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage
2. (anatomy and medicine) In the direction of the palm
3. (zoology) Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.

Synonyms

• (in the direction of the palm): palmal

Antonyms

• (toward the palmar surface): dorsal

Hypernyms

• volar

Translations

See also

• plantar
• ventral

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

palmar m

1. indefinite plural of palme

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?ma?/, [pal?ma?]

Etymology 1

From Latin palm?ris.

Adjective

palmar (plural palmares)

1. related to palms (hand and tree); palmar
2. (figuratively) obvious

   Synonyms: palmario, claro

Noun

palmar m (plural palmares)

1. palm grove

Related terms

• palma

Etymology 2

Late Latin palm?re

Verb

palmar (first-person singular present palmo, first-person singular preterite palmé, past participle palmado)

1. (colloquial) to die, kick the bucket

   Synonyms: cascarla, morir

2. (colloquial) to lose in a game

Conjugation

Related terms

• palma

Further reading

• “palmar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin dorsum.

Noun

dorsum (plural dorsa)

1. The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.
2. The top of the foot or the back of the hand.
3. (anatomy) The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
4. (astrogeology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
5. (astronomy) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat

Synonyms

• (back of an animal): back

Related terms

• dorsal / dorsumal

Translations

References

• dorsum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dorsum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dromus, dumsor

Latin

Alternative forms

• *dossum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dorsom, with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages. Has been linked to deorsum, but their contemporaneous use suggests that one was not a phonetic development of the other.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dor.sum/, [?d??rs????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dor.sum/, [?d??rsum]

Noun

dorsum n (genitive dors?); second declension

1. (anatomy) back, part of the body between the neck and buttocks
2. (figuratively) ridge, summit

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Antonyms

• venter

Derived terms

• dors?lis
• dorsualia

Descendants

References

• dorsum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dorsum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dorsum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dorsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette