Palmistry
/ˈpɑːmɪstri/noun
The practice of interpreting a person's character or future from the lines and features of the palm.
Did you know?Palmistry became popular in medieval and early modern Europe through learned occult traditions that treated the hand as a symbolic mirror of the cosmos.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pl̥h₂meh₃
“palm of the hand”
Latin
Latin
palma
“palm of the hand; palm tree”
Old French
Old French
palmiste
“one who practices palm reading”
Late Middle English
English
palmistry
“the practice of reading fortunes from the hand”
Modern English
English
palmistry
“the practice of interpreting character or fortune from the lines of the palm”