pome

English

A pyracantha bush bearing pomes

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 or (heraldry) pomeis)

1. (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.

2. (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.
3. Alternative form of pomme (“green roundel in heraldry”)

Hypernyms

• fruit

Coordinate terms

• (type of fruit): berry, drupe, hesperidium

Derived terms

• pomaceous
• pome-citron
• pomiferous

Related terms

• pomegranate

Translations

type of fruit

• Breton: pomenn f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梨果 (zh) (líguǒ)

• Dutch: pitvrucht (nl)
• French: piridion (fr) m, péridium (fr) m, péridion (fr) m
• Galician: pomo (gl) m
• German: Apfelfrucht (de) f, Kernobst (de) n
• Hungarian: almatermés (hu)
• Japanese: 梨果 (ja) (りか, rika)
• Polish: owoc jabłkowy m
• Portuguese: pomo (pt) m
• Spanish: pomo (es) m
• Tagalog: takadtasbunga
• Welsh: afal (cy) m, ffrwyth afaleuog m

Verb

pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)

1. (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)

1. 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

1. (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): /poː.mi/, [poː.mɪ]

Pronoun

pome m pl or f pl

1. we, us, ourselves

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.

Noun

pome f (plural pomis)

1. fruit

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.me/
• Rhymes: -ome
• Hyphenation: pó‧me

Noun

pome m (invariable)

1. Abbreviation of pomeriggio.

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)

1. fruit (especially an apple)
2. 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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)

1. 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