porrum
Latin
Alternative forms
- porrus (classical)
- pōrum (ante-classical, epigraphic)
- purrum (post-classical)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *porso-, from Proto-Indo-European *pers-ó-s. Cognate with Ancient Greek πράσον (práson), Sanskrit पर्ष (parṣa), and Albanian presh. Compare Latin ferrum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔrːʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔrːum]
Noun
porrum n (genitive porrī); second declension
- leek
- chives
Usage notes
According to multiple Roman grammatici, this word is neuter in the singular and masculine in the plural. While the masculine and neuter singulars are found with the same frequency, the neuter plural has indeed one single attestation.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | porrum | porrī porra |
Genitive | porrī | porrōrum |
Dative | porrō | porrīs |
Accusative | porrum | porrōs |
Ablative | porrō | porrīs |
Vocative | porrum | porrī |
Derived terms
- porrāceus
- porrīna
- porriō
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: por, pur
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: porro
- → Alemannic German: Bor
- Sicilian: porru
- Italian: porro
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: pòr ⇒ porass, porèn
- Ligurian: pöro ⇒ pörin, porin
- Lombard: pòr, pòrc
- Piedmontese: pòr, pòro ⇒ poret, porät, porin
- Romagnol: pòr, pòrc
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pôr ⇒ porrel
- Old French: por ⇒ poree, poiree
- ⇒ French: poireau
- Haitian Creole: powo
- Norman: pouothé
- ⇒ French: poireau
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: porro
- → Spanish: porro
- Gascon: pòr
- Occitan: pòrre ⇒ porret
- ⇒ Auvergnat: porrada
- ⇒ Limousin: porrat, porrada
- Catalan: porro
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: porro
- Asturian: puerru
- Galician: porro
- Portuguese: porra, porro
- Spanish: porra, puerro
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: porr
- → Basque: porru
- → Cornish: por
- → Czech: pór, pórek
- → Danish: porre
- → Faroese: purra
- → Norwegian Bokmål: purre
- → Polish: por
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: порилук
- Latin: poriluk
- → Slovak: pór
- → Slovene: por
- → Swedish: purjo, purjolök
- → Finnish: purjo, purjosipuli
References
- “porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porrum 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)
- porrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 481-2
- “porrum, porrus” in volume X, 1, column 2777, line 39 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Walde, Alois (1910), “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602