# pomum
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpoː.mum/, [ˈpoːmʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpo.mum/, [ˈpɔːmum]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *poomos. Likely from Proto-Italic *po-emo- (“picked off”), or possibly *po-omo- or *pe-omo-.

#### Noun

pōmum n (genitive pōmī); second declension
* any type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.)
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.253:stābat adhūc dūrīs fīcus dēnsissima pōmīsThere stood a fig-tree loaded with fruit, [although it was] still hard [unripe]. There stood a fig-tree, still loaded with unripe fruit. (Joins the ablative plurals dūrīs and pōmīs.)
* fruit tree

##### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

##### Derived terms

* pōmārium
* pōmārius
* pomatum
* pōmētum
* pōmifer
* pōmōsus
* pōmusculum

##### Related terms

* Pōmōna
* pomus

##### Descendants

* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: pom
** Romanian: pom
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Italian: pomo
** Sicilian: pumu, pummu
** Venetan: pomo
* Gallo-Italic:
** Emilian: pùm, pàm
** Lombard: pom
** Piedmontese: pom
*** → Alemannic German: pum (Italian Walser)
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: pom
** Occitan:
    Auvergnat: pòm
    Provençal: pom
    Vivaro-Alpine: pom
* Borrowings:
** → Portuguese: pomo
** → Spanish: pomo
* ⇒ Latin: pomārium
** Italo-Dalmatian:
*** Italian: pomaio
** Gallo-Romance:
*** Old French: pomier, pumier, pumer
**** French: pommier
**** → Italian: pomiere
** ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pomāre?
*** Balkano-Romance:
**** Romanian: pomar
*** Italo-Dalmatian:
**** Venetan: pomar
*** Ibero-Romance:
**** Old Galician-Portuguese:
***** Galician: pomar, pumar
***** Portuguese: pomar
**** Old Leonese: pomar
***** Asturian: pumar, pomar
***** Leonese: pomal, pumar, pumal
** Borrowings:
*** → Italian: pomario
Through pōma (plural):
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: poamã
** Romanian: poamă
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: poma
** Sicilian: puma
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: pome
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: poma
** Piedmontese: poma
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: poma
** Old French: pome, pomme, poume, pume (see there for further descendants)
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: poma
** Old Occitan: poma
*** Occitan: poma
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese:
    Ribagorçan: poma
** >? Galician: poma
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: poma
*** Leonese: poma
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: pemë
** → Portuguese: poma
** → Spanish: poma

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

pōmum
* accusative singular of pōmus

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pōmus / pōmum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 479