pomus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) (whence po-) + *h₁em- (“take”) (whence emō). Compare the same semantic development in Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

pōmus f (genitive pōmī); second declension

1. fruit
2. fruit tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōmus	pōmī
Genitive	pōmī	pōmōrum
Dative	pōmō	pōmīs
Accusative	pōmum	pōmōs
Ablative	pōmō	pōmīs
Vocative	pōme	pōmī

Related terms

• pōmum

Descendants

• → Albanian: pemë
• Aromanian: pom
• → English: pome
• Italian: pomo
• Megleno-Romanian: pom
• Portuguese: pomo
• Romanian: pom
• Sicilian: pumu
• Spanish: pomo
• Catalan: poma
• French: pomme

References

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