porrum
Latin
Alternative forms
- porrus
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so-, which is most likely a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language. Cognate with Ancient Greek πράσον (práson).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔr.rũ]
Noun
porrum n (genitive porrī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | porrum | porra |
| genitive | porrī | porrōrum |
| dative | porrō | porrīs |
| accusative | porrum | porra |
| ablative | porrō | porrīs |
| vocative | porrum | porra |
Descendants
- → Albanian: porr
- Asturian: puerru
- → Basque: porru
- Catalan: porro
- → Cornish: por
- → Czech: pór, pórek
- → Danish: porre
- → Faroese: purra
- Italian: porro
- → Alemannic German: Bor
- → Luxembourgish: Porrett
- → Norwegian Bokmål: purre
- Old French: por
- Old Portuguese:
- → Polish: por
- Romanian: por
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: порилук
- Latin: poriluk
- → Slovak: pór
- → Slovene: por
- Spanish: porra, porro, puerro
- → Swedish: purjo, purjolök
- → Finnish: purjo
References
- porrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- porrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- porrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
- Walde, Alois (1910), “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602
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