ploma - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈplo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈplo.ma]

Inherited from Latin plūma.

ploma f (plural plomes)

1. feather
2. quill, pen (writing tool)
3. (engineering) jib (moveable arm of a crane)

   Synonym: braç

4. (engineering) derrick

   Synonym: puntal

5. (historical) Measure of water flow ranging anywhere from 2200 to 14,000 liters/day depending on the time and place

• “ploma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ploma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ploma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ploma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

ploma

1. inflection of plomar (“to pluck”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

ploma

1. inflection of plomar (“to seal with lead”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• plloma (ORB, narrow)

Inherited from Latin plūma.

ploma f (plural plomes) (ORB, broad)

1. feather

• plume in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• pl(l)oma in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

ploma f (definite singular ploma, indefinite plural plomer or plomor, definite plural plomene or plomone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of plomme
2. definite singular of plome (non-standard since 2012)

ploma f (plural plomas)

1. (Surmiran) pile, lot, quantity

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) mantun
• (Sutsilvan) mantùn
• (Surmiran) massada
• (Sutsilvan) plùna