pome
English
Etymology
From Middle English pome (“fruit, meatball”), from Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pōmum. For the verb, compare French pommer. Doublet of pomme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpəʊm/
- Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophone: poem (some pronunciations)
Noun
pome (plural pomes)
- (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
- Hyponyms: apple, pear, quince
- The best-known example of a pome is the apple.
- (Roman Catholicism) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
Hypernyms
- fruit
Coordinate terms
- (type of fruit): berry, drupe, hesperidium
Derived terms
- pomaceous
- pomiferous
Related terms
- pomegranate
Translations
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Verb
pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Further reading
- pome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- mope, poem, poëm
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Old French pome, from Latin poma, plural of pomum.
Noun
pome f (plural pomes)
- apple
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- puam, póom
Etymology
From Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz (“tree”). Cognate with German Baum, English beam.
Noun
pome m
- (Tredici Comuni) tree
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Creek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poːmɪ/
Pronoun
pome
- we, us, ourselves (plural, male, female)
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.
Noun
pome f (plural pomis)
- fruit
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
Etymology
From Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pomum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔːm(ə)/, /ˈpoːm(ə)/, /ˈpuːm(ə)/, /ˈpɔm(ə)/
- Rhymes: -oːm(ə), -ɔːm(ə)
Noun
pome (plural pomes)
- fruit (especially an apple)
- meatballs, patties (named due to their round shape)
Related terms
- pome garnate
Descendants
- English: pome
References
- “pō̆me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.
Old French
Alternative forms
- pomme, poume, pume
Etymology
From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.
Noun
pome f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)
- apple
Descendants
- Bourguignon: pome
- French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme; poume; pum, poume, paomme; pomme, poumme; pum, pum, paomme; pomme, poumme; poume
- Picard: peimme
- Walloon: peme
- → Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
- English: pome