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PALMATE
Definition of PALMATE
adjective
Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin palmātus (“hand-shaped, palm-leaf shaped”), from palma (“palm, palm-tree”). Equivalent to palm + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French palmé.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PALMATE · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PALMATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 38 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PALMATE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAELMPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PALMAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 39
Could you have found PALMATE?
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