porrum

Latin

Alternative forms

• porrus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so-, which is most likely a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language. Cognate with Ancient Greek πράσον (práson) and Albanian presh.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔrːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔrːum]

Noun

porrum n (genitive porrī); second declension

1. leek
2. chives

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porrum	porra
Genitive	porrī	porrōrum
Dative	porrō	porrīs
Accusative	porrum	porra
Ablative	porrō	porrīs
Vocative	porrum	porra

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: por, pur
• Italian: porro
  • → Alemannic German: Bor
• Old French: por
  • ⇒ Old French: poiree
    • French: poireau, porreau
      • Haitian Creole: powo
    • Norman: pouothé
  • ⇒ Old French: poree, poret
    • Middle French: porrée, porret
      • French: porrette
        • → English: porret
      • Walloon: poret, porea
        • → Limburgish: poor
      • → German: Porree
        • → Esperanto: poreo
        • → Hungarian: póré
        • → Russian: порей (porej)
      • → Low German: Porree
    • → English: porray
    • → Hungarian: paraj
    • → Luxembourgish: Porrett
    • → Middle Dutch: poreye
      • Dutch: prei
      • West Flemish: pret
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: puerru
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: porro
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: porro
  • Portuguese: porra, porro
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: porra, porro, puerro
• → Albanian: porr
• → Basque: porru
• → Cornish: por
• → Czech: pór, pórek
• → Danish: porre
• → Faroese: purra
• → Norwegian Bokmål: purre
• → Polish: por
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: порилук
  • Latin script: poriluk
• → Slovak: pór
• → Slovene: por
• → Swedish: purjo, purjolök
  • → Finnish: purjo, purjosipuli

References

• “porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porrum 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)
• porrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Walde, Alois (1910) “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602