# pome
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English pome (“fruit, meatball”), from Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pōmum. For the verb, compare French pommer. Doublet of pomme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpəʊm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊm
* Homophone: poem (some pronunciations)

### Noun

pome (plural pomes or (heraldry) pomeis)
* (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
    Synonym: (obsolete) apple
    Hypernym: fruit
    Hyponyms: apple, pear, quince
    Coordinate terms: berry, drupe, hesperidium
    The best-known example of a pome is the apple.
* (Roman Catholicism) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
* Alternative form of pomme (“green roundel in heraldry”)

#### Derived terms

* pomaceous
* pome-citron
* pomiferous

#### Related terms

* pomegranate

#### Translations
### Verb

pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

### Further reading

* pome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* mope, poem, poëm

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Old French pome, from Latin poma, plural of pomum.

### Noun

pome f (plural pomes)
* apple

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* puam, póom

### Etymology

From Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz (“tree”). Cognate with German Baum, English beam.

### Noun

pome m
* (Tredici Comuni) tree

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Creek
### Alternative forms

* pēme (Florida)

### Pronunciation

* (Oklahoma) IPA: [póˑmi]
* Hyphenation: po‧me

### Pronoun

pome
* we

### References

* J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 99
* J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 142

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.

### Noun

pome f (plural pomis)
* fruit

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpo.me/
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: pó‧me

### Noun

pome m (invariable)
* Abbreviation of pomeriggio.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy

### Etymology

From Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pomum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔːm(ə)/, /ˈpoːm(ə)/, /ˈpuːm(ə)/, /ˈpɔm(ə)/
* Rhymes: -oːm(ə), -ɔːm(ə)

### Noun

pome (plural pomes)
* fruit (especially an apple)
* meatballs, patties (named due to their round shape)

#### Related terms

* pome garnate

#### Descendants

* English: pome

#### References

* “pō̆me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* pomme, poume, pume

### Etymology

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

### Noun

pome oblique singular, f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)
* apple

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: pome
* Champenois: pomme
* French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
* Franc-Comtois: pamme
* Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman), pum (Sark), poume, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), pum (Sark), pum, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman)
* Picard: peimme
* Poitevin-Saintongeais: poume
* Walloon: peme
* → Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
** English: pome