pomum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpoː.mũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.mum]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo

Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os

Proto-Italic *poomos

Latin pomum

Inherited 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, Ovidius, 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

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

Related terms

• Pōmōna
• pōmus

Descendants

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: pom
  • Romanian: pom
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: pomo
  • Sicilian: pumu, pummu
  • Venetan: pomo
• 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:
  • → Portuguese: pomo
  • → Spanish: pomo

Through pōma (plural):

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: poamã
  • Romanian: poamă
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: poma
  • Sicilian: puma
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: pome
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: poma
  • Piedmontese: poma
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: poma
  • Old French: pome, pomme, poume, pume (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: poma
  • Old Occitan: poma
    • Occitan: poma
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese:

    Ribagorçan: poma

  • >? Galician: poma
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: poma
    • Leonese: poma
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: pemë
  • → Portuguese: poma
  • → Spanish: poma

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, 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