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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

pome (plural pomes)

1. (botany) A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.

   Hyponyms: apple, pear, quince

2. (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.

Derived terms

• pomaceous
• pomiferous

Related terms

• pomegranate

Translations

Verb

pome (third-person singular simple present pomes, present participle poming, simple past and past participle pomed)

1. (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)

1. 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

1. (Tredici Comuni) tree

References

• “pome” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Creek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?m?/

Pronoun

pome

1. we, us, ourselves (plural, male, female)

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum, interpreted as a feminine singular.

Noun

pome f (plural pomis)

1. fruit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??m(?)/, /?po?m(?)/, /?pu?m(?)/, /?p?m(?)/
• Rhymes: -o?m(?), -??m(?)

Noun

pome (plural pomes)

1. fruit (especially an apple)
2. meatballs, patties (named due to their round shape)

Related terms

• pome garnate

Descendants

• English: pome

References

• “p??me, 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 p?ma, plural of p?mum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

Noun

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

1. apple

Descendants

• Bourguignon: pome
• French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme, poume, pum
• Picard: peimme
• Walloon: peme
• ? Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
  • English: pome

English

Etymology

From French pommé (“grown round, or like an apple”), past participle of pommer (“to pome”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.mi/

Adjective

pomey (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of pommee

Noun

pomey (plural pomeys)

1. (heraldry) A green roundel representing an apple.

Anagrams

• mopey, myope