prunus

See also: Prunus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.

Noun

prunus (uncountable)

1. (ceramics) A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
   • 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     […] a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but “in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus.”

Anagrams

• nupurs, run ups, run-ups, runs up, runups, upruns

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προύνη (proúnē), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpruː.nus/, [ˈpruːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpru.nus/, [ˈpruːnus]

Noun

prūnus f (genitive prūnī); second declension

1. plum tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prūnus	prūnī
Genitive	prūnī	prūnōrum
Dative	prūnō	prūnīs
Accusative	prūnum	prūnōs
Ablative	prūnō	prūnīs
Vocative	prūne	prūnī

Derived terms

• prūnniceus
• prūnum

Descendants

• Aromanian: prun
• Italian: pruno, prugno
• Old French: prune
  • French: prune
  • Norman: preune
  • Walloon: pronne
  • → Middle English: prune, pruna
    • English: prune
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: abruño
  • Portuguese: abrunho
• Romanian: prun
• Spanish: pruno
• Translingual: Prunus
• → Proto-West Germanic: *plūmā (see there for further descendants)
  • English: plum

References

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