pruina
English
Noun
pruina
- (botany) A white powdery bloom found on some lichens
Related terms
- pruinose
- pruinosity
Anagrams
- unipar, unpair
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with prūna (“a live coal”). More at freeze.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pruˈiː.na/, [pruˈiːnä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pruˈi.na/, [pruˈiːnä]
Noun
pruīna f (genitive pruīnae); first declension
- rime, hoarfrost
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.357:
- Mollis erat tellūs rōrāta māne pruīnā.
- The earth was [still] soft, bedewed with morning hoarfrost.
- Mollis erat tellūs rōrāta māne pruīnā.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pruīna | pruīnae |
| Genitive | pruīnae | pruīnārum |
| Dative | pruīnae | pruīnīs |
| Accusative | pruīnam | pruīnās |
| Ablative | pruīnā | pruīnīs |
| Vocative | pruīna | pruīnae |
Descendants
- → Esperanto: prujno
- French: bruine
- Galician: pruína
- Italian: brina
- Piedmontese: brin-a
- Portuguese: pruína
- Romanian: pruină
- Venetian: puìna, poìna
References
- “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pruina 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)
- pruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish
Noun
pruina f (plural pruinas)
- pruina
Further reading
- “pruina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014