pruna

Inherited from Latin prūnum, via its plural prūna.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾu.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɾu.na]

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pruna f (plural prunes)

1. plum (fruit)

• “pruna”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.na]

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze, burn”); compare Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”). If so, cognate to Albanian prush (“embers”) and Sanskrit प्लोषति (ploṣati, “to scorch”).

prūna f (genitive prūnae); first declension

1. a burning coal, live coal, glowing charcoal; embers

   Synonym: favilla

First-declension noun.

• carbō

• ⇒ Aromanian: sprunã
• ⇒ Catalan: espurna
• ⇒ Italian: brunice

prūna

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of prūnum

See prūnum.

• “pruna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pruna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pruna", 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)
• pruna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

pruna

1. alternative form of prune

From Latin pruna, plural of prunum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾuna/ [ˈpɾu.na]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: pru‧na

pruna f (plural prunas)

1. plum

   Synonym: ciruela

• “pruna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024