different between palmer vs paler

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English palmer, from Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier (“palmer”), from Medieval Latin palm?rius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).

Noun

palmer (plural palmers)

1. (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.
2. (archaic) Abbreviation of palmerworm.

Translations

Etymology 2

From noun

Noun

palmer (plural palmers)

1. A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.

Etymology 3

From the transitive verb to palm.

Noun

palmer (plural palmers)

1. 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

Noun

palmer m (plural palmers)

1. palm tree

Latin

Verb

palmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palm?

Middle English

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 palm?rius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pal.m?r(?)/

Noun

palmer (plural palmeres)

1. 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 ...

   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, ll. 13–15:

2. (by extension) Any pilgrim or crusader.

Descendants

• English: palmer

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

palmer m

1. indefinite plural of palme

Swedish

Noun

palmer

1. indefinite plural of palm

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Adjective

paler

1. comparative form of pale: more pale

Anagrams

• APLer, Alper, Pearl, lepra, parle, pearl, repla

Latin

Verb

p?ler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of p?l?