pomum

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *poomos. Likely from Proto-Italic *po-emo- (“picked off”), or possibly *po-omo- or *pe-omo-.[1]

Noun

pōmum n (genitive pōmī); second declension

  1. any type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.)
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.253:
      stābat adhūc dūrīs fīcus dēnsissima pōmīs
      There stood a fig-tree loaded with fruit, [although it was] still hard [unripe].
      There stood a fig-tree, still loaded with unripe fruit.
      (Joins the ablative plurals dūrīs and pōmīs.)
  2. fruit tree
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative pōmum pōma
genitive pōmī pōmōrum
dative pōmō pōmīs
accusative pōmum pōma
ablative pōmō pōmīs
vocative pōmum pōma
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: pom
    • Romanian: pom
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: pùm, pàm
    • Lombard: pom
    • Piedmontese: pom
      • → Alemannic German: pum (Italian Walser)
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: pom
    • Occitan:
      Auvergnat: pòm
      Provençal: pom
      Vivaro-Alpine: pom
  • Borrowings:
  • ⇒ Latin: pomārium

Through pōma (plural):

  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese:
      Ribagorçan: poma
    • >? Galician: poma
    • Old Leonese:
  • Borrowings:

Further reading

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pomum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pōmum

  1. accusative singular of pōmus

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pōmus / pōmum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 479
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