pomus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) (whence po-) + *h₁em- (“take”) (whence emō). Compare the same semantic development in Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

pōmus f (genitive pōmī); second declension

1. fruit
2. fruit tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pōmus	pōmī
genitive	pōmī	pōmōrum
dative	pōmō	pōmīs
accusative	pōmum	pōmōs
ablative	pōmō	pōmīs
vocative	pōme	pōmī

Related terms

• pōmum

Descendants

See pōmum.

Further reading

• “pomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pomus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pomus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.