Pomeranze
German
editEtymology
edit15th century, from Medieval Latin pomerancium, from pomum (“fruit”) + arancia (“orange”), the latter from Arabic نارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang). Doublet of Orange. Cognate with Italian pomarancia (“sweet orange”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editPomeranze f (genitive Pomeranze, plural Pomeranzen)
- bitter orange
- Synonyms: Bitterorange, Bitterapfelsine
- 1816, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “St. Agata, den 24. Februar 1787”, in Italienische Reise [Italian Journey][1], volume 1:
- Als wir aus Fondi herausfuhren, ward es eben helle, und wir wurden sogleich durch die über die Mauern hängenden Pomeranzen auf beiden Seiten des Wegs begrüßt. Die Bäume hängen so voll, als man sich's nur denken kann.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (chiefly in compounds) a girl, by extension also any person, from the countryside or from a small town, who is unfamiliar with and easily impressed by city dwellers’ lifestyle
Declension
editDeclension of Pomeranze [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Pomeranze | die | Pomeranzen |
genitive | einer | der | Pomeranze | der | Pomeranzen |
dative | einer | der | Pomeranze | den | Pomeranzen |
accusative | eine | die | Pomeranze | die | Pomeranzen |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Czech: pomeranč
- → Old Slovak: pamaranč, pomaranč, pomeranč, pomoranč
- → Polish: pomarańcza
- →? Yiddish: פּאָמעראַנץ (pomerants)
- → Romanian: pomeranță
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: поморанџа, поморанча
- Latin script: pomorandža, pomoranča
Further reading
edit- “Pomeranze” in Duden online
- “Pomeranze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pomeranze”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
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