pomum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.mum/, [ˈpoːmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.mum/, [ˈpɔːmum]

Etymology 1

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

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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōmum	pōma
Genitive	pōmī	pōmōrum
Dative	pōmō	pōmīs
Accusative	pōmum	pōma
Ablative	pōmō	pōmīs
Vocative	pōmum	pōma

Derived terms

• pomatum
• pōmifer
• pōmusculum
• pōmārium
• pōmārius
• pōmētum
• pōmōsus

 

Related terms

• Pōmōna
• pomus

Descendants

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: pom
  • Romanian: pom
• Italo-Romance:
  • Sicilian: pumu, pummu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: pùm, pàm
  • Lombard: pom
  • Piedmontese: pom
    • → Alemannic German: pum (Italian Walser)
  • Venetian: pomo
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: pòm

    Provençal: pom

    Vivaro-Alpine: pom

• ⇒ Latin: pōma (plural)
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: poamã
    • Romanian: poamă
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Sicilian: puma
  • Padanian:
    • Friulian: pome
    • Lombard: poma
    • Piedmontese: poma
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: poma
    • Old French: pome, pomme, poume, pume
      • Bourguignon: pome
      • French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme (Jersey); poume (continental Norman); pum (Sark), poume, paomme (Guernsey); pomme, poumme (Jersey); pum (Sark), pum, paomme (Guernsey); pomme, poumme (Jersey); poume (continental Norman)
      • Picard: peimme
      • Walloon: peme
      • → Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
        • English: pome
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese:

      Ribagorçan: poma

    • Catalan: poma
    • Old Occitan: poma
      • Occitan: poma
  • Borrowings:
    • → Portuguese: poma
    • → Spanish: poma
• ⇒ Latin: pomārium
  • Vulgar Latin: *pomāre- ?
    • Balkan Romance:
      • Romanian: pomar
    • Padanian:
      • Venetian: pomar
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Galician-Portuguese:
        • Galician: pomar, pumar
        • Portuguese: pomar
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: pemë
  • → Portuguese: pomo
  • → Spanish: pomo

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