different between pomme vs pommel

English

Alternative forms

• pomey

Etymology

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

Noun

pomme (plural pomeis)

1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple.

References

• Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

Estonian

Noun

pomme

1. partitive plural of pomm

French

Etymology

From Old French pomme, pome, pume, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?m/

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. apple (fruit)
2. Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
3. The fruit part of several vegetables.
4. (colloquial) The head.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “pomme” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

• paomme (Guernsey)
• poume (continental Norman)
• poumme (Jersey)
• pum (Sark)

Etymology

From Latin pomme, from Latin p?ma, plural of p?mum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

1. (Jersey) apple

Derived terms

Old French

Noun

pomme f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

1. Alternative form of pome

English

Alternative forms

• pummel

Etymology

From Middle English pomel, from Old French pomel and Medieval Latin pomellum, pumellum, presumedly via Vulgar Latin *pomellum (“ball, knob”), the diminutive of Late Latin p?mum (“apple”). Compare French pommeau and Spanish pomo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?.m?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.m?l/
• Hyphenation: pom?mel
• Rhymes: -?m?l

Noun

pommel (plural pommels)

1. The upper front brow of a saddle.

   Synonyms: swell, fork

2. A rounded knob or handle.
   1. Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
   2. The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword or dagger.

      Holonyms: haft, hilt
   3. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
3. (sports, obsolete) The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.

Derived terms

• pommel horse
• pommel foot
• pommel slicker

Translations

Verb

pommel (third-person singular simple present pommels, present participle pommelling or pommeling, simple past and past participle pommelled or pommeled)

1. (transitive) To pound or beat.

Derived terms

• bepommel
• pommeller

Related terms

• pummel

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