pome
English
Etymology
From Middle English pome (“fruit, meatball”), from Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pōmum. For the verb, compare French pommer. Doublet of pomme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpəʊm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophone: poem (some pronunciations)
Noun
pome (plural pomes or (heraldry) pomeis)
- (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
- (Roman Catholicism) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
- Alternative form of pomme (“green roundel in heraldry”).
Derived terms
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Translations
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Verb
pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)
Further reading
Anagrams
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Old French pome, from Latin poma, plural of pomum.
Noun
pome f (plural pomes)
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz (“tree”). Cognate with German Baum, English beam.
Noun
pome m
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Creek
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Pronoun
pome
References
- The template Template:R:mus:DCM does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 99 - J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 142
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.
Noun
pome f (plural pomis)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpo.me/
- Rhymes: -ome
- Hyphenation: pó‧me
Noun
pome m (invariable)
- abbreviation of pomeriggio
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pomum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔːm(ə)/, /ˈpoːm(ə)/, /ˈpuːm(ə)/, /ˈpɔm(ə)/
- Rhymes: -oːm(ə), -ɔːm(ə)
Noun
pome (plural pomes)
Related terms
Descendants
- English: pome
References
- “pō̆me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 March 2018.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.
Noun
pome oblique singular, f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)
Descendants
- Bourguignon: pome
- Champenois: pomme
- French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
- Franc-Comtois: pamme
- Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental), pum (Sark), poume, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), pum (Sark), pum, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental)
- Picard: peimme
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: poume
- Walloon: peme
- → Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
- English: pome