pometum

Latin

Etymology

From pōmus (“fruit tree”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [poːˈmeː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [poˈmɛː.tum]

Noun

pōmētum n (genitive pōmētī); second declension

1. (post-Classical) a place planted with fruit trees, an orchard

   Synonym: pōmārium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pōmētum	pōmēta
genitive	pōmētī	pōmētōrum
dative	pōmētō	pōmētīs
accusative	pōmētum	pōmēta
ablative	pōmētō	pōmētīs
vocative	pōmētum	pōmēta

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: pumet
  • Romanian: pomet
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pometo

References

• “pometum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "pometum", 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)
• “pometum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.