pomum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *poomos. Possibly from an obscure Mediterranean substrate language, or an evolution of Old Latin roots *po-emo (“picked off”), possible variants including *po-omo and *pe-omo.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.mum/, [ˈpoː.mũ]

Noun

pōmum n (genitive pōmī); second declension

any type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.)
fruit tree

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pōmum	pōma
genitive	pōmī	pōmōrum
dative	pōmō	pōmīs
accusative	pōmum	pōma
ablative	pōmō	pōmīs
vocative	pōmum	pōma

Related terms

pomus

Descendants

Albanian: pemë
Aromanian: poamã
Catalan: poma
French: pomme
- → English: pome
- → Vietnamese: bôm
Friulian: pome
Italian: pomo

Occitan: poma
Portuguese: pomo, poma
Romanian: pom, poamă
Sicilian: pummu, puma
Spanish: poma, pomo
Venetian: pomo

References

pomum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pomum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pomum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
pomum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

↑ de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.

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[1] Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.