pomme

See also: pommé

English

Alternative forms

• pomey

Etymology

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma.

Noun

pomme (plural pomeis)

1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple.

References

• Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

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French

Etymology

From Old French pomme, pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔm/

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Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. apple (fruit)
2. Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
3. The fruit part of several vegetables.
4. (colloquial) The head.

Derived terms

• croquer la pomme
• pomme de terre
• pomme d’Adam
• pommes frites

 

Related terms

• pommeau
• pommer
• pommier

 

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: ponm
• Haitian Creole: pòm
• Louisiana Creole: pòm
• Mauritian Creole: pom
• Seychellois Creole: ponm
• → Amharic: ፖም (pom)
• → East Futuna: pomo
• → English: pomme, pomey
• → Khmer: ប៉ុម (pom)
• → Malagasy: paoma
• → Ngazidja Comorian: pomu
• → Rwanda-Rundi: pome
• → Vietnamese: bôm
• → Wolof: pom

Further reading

• “pomme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Alternative forms

• paomme (Guernsey)
• poume (continental Norman)
• poumme (Jersey)
• pum (Sark)

Etymology

From Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. (Jersey) apple

Derived terms

• pomme à cidre
• pomme dé garde
• pomme dé sapîn
• pomme dé tabl'ye
• pomme dé tchêne
• pomme douoche
• pomme suthe
• pommyi

 

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Old French

Noun

pomme oblique singular, f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

1. Alternative form of pome