different between pomello vs pomelo

English

Noun

pomello (plural pomellos or pomelloes)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of pomelo [18th century]
   • 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, page 295:

     Pomelloes, a name under which forbidden fruit is sometimes sold in this country by fruiterers.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?m?l.lo/
• Rhymes: -?llo

Noun

pomello m (plural pomelli)

1. knob
2. cheek (of the face)

English

Alternative forms

• pommelo, pummelo, pomelow, pummaloe, pummelow
• (obsolete): pomello, pomolo, pumelo

Etymology

Of uncertain etymology, though possibly a variant of earlier pampelmoes, from French, Dutch, Portuguese sources ultimately equivalent to "thick lemon" or transcribing the Tamil ???? ?????? (pampa ?im?cu, “big citrus”). Alternatively, possibly from pome (“apple”) + melon or some cognate; though such a compound is currently unattested, some early variant spellings seem to show influence from pome.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p??m?l?, p??m?l?, p?m??l?, IPA^(key): /?p?m?l??/, /?p?m?l??/, /p??m?l??/
• (General American) enPR: p??m?l?, IPA^(key): /?p?m?lo?/

Noun

pomelo (plural pomelos or pomeloes)

1. The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh.

   Synonyms: (India) jabong, (South Africa) pampelmoes, (chiefly Caribbean) shaddock, Chinese grapefruit

2. The tree which produces this fruit.
3. (US, Caribbean, historical) the grapefruit.

Synonyms

• (grapefruit): See grapefruit

Derived terms

• tangelo

Descendants

• ? French: pomélo, pomelo
• ? German: Pomelo
• ? Italian: pomelo
• ? Portuguese: pomelo
• ? Spanish: pomelo

Translations

Further reading

• pomelo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pomelo at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??me?lo?/

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomelo's, diminutive pomelootje n)

1. (chiefly Belgium) pomelo (fruit of the tree Citrus maxima)
2. Cross between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and grapefruit (Citrus ×paradisi), typically with green peel but bigger and sweeter than grapefruit

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.me.lo/

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomelos)

1. Alternative spelling of pomélo

Galician

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomelos)

1. grapefruit

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pomelo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?m?.lo/
• Hyphenation: po?mè?lo

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomeli)

1. pomelo (Citrus maxima)

References

• pomelo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pomelo, from Dutch pompelmoes

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomelos)

1. pomelo (large citric fruit native to southeast Asia)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pomelo, from Dutch pompelmoes

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?melo/, [po?me.lo]

Noun

pomelo m (plural pomelos)

1. pomelo
2. grapefruit

   Synonym: toronja