英语词汇palm of the hand的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

palm of the hand; palm tree. Palm trees take their name from the Latin palma, “palm of the hand,” because the tree’s fronds resemble a spread hand. Palm Sunday, the Sunday be- fore Easter, is named after Christ’s triumphant entry into Jeru- salem, when people strewed his way with palm branches and leaves. The palm was a symbol of victory in Roman times, and to bear the palm meant to be the best, after the Roman custom of awarding a palm branch to a victorious gladiator. This led to the expression palmy days, “prosperous” or “happy days,” as those days were to a victorious gladiator when he received a palm branch. Incidentally, the palm of the hand had its own Old English word, folm, which was used until medieval times even while palm was used for the palm tree. It wasn’t until then that the French paume, a derivative of the Latin palma, was borrowed, altered slightly to palm, and began to mean the palm of the hand in place of folm.

词汇	palm of the hand
词源	palm of the hand; palm tree. Palm trees take their name from the Latin palma, “palm of the hand,” because the tree’s fronds resemble a spread hand. Palm Sunday, the Sunday be- fore Easter, is named after Christ’s triumphant entry into Jeru- salem, when people strewed his way with palm branches and leaves. The palm was a symbol of victory in Roman times, and to bear the palm meant to be the best, after the Roman custom of awarding a palm branch to a victorious gladiator. This led to the expression palmy days, “prosperous” or “happy days,” as those days were to a victorious gladiator when he received a palm branch. Incidentally, the palm of the hand had its own Old English word, folm, which was used until medieval times even while palm was used for the palm tree. It wasn’t until then that the French paume, a derivative of the Latin palma, was borrowed, altered slightly to palm, and began to mean the palm of the hand in place of folm.
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