pruina

English

Noun

pruina

1. (botany) A white powdery bloom found on some lichens

Related terms

• pruinose

Anagrams

• unipar, unpair

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with prūna (“a live coal”). More at freeze.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pruˈiː.na/, [pruˈiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pruˈi.na/, [pruˈiːnä]

Noun

pruīna f (genitive pruīnae); first declension

1. rime, hoarfrost
2. vocative singular of pruīna
3. ablative singular of pruīna

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pruīna	pruīnae
Genitive	pruīnae	pruīnārum
Dative	pruīnae	pruīnīs
Accusative	pruīnam	pruīnās
Ablative	pruīnā	pruīnīs
Vocative	pruīna	pruīnae

Descendants

• Esperanto: prujno
• Venetian: puìna, poìna

References

• “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pruina 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)
• pruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.