porrum

Latin

Alternative forms

porrus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥so-, which is most likely a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language. Cognate with Ancient Greek πράσον (práson).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.rum/, [ˈpɔr.rũː]

Noun

porrum n (genitive porrī); second declension

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Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porrum	porra
Genitive	porrī	porrōrum
Dative	porrō	porrīs
Accusative	porrum	porra
Ablative	porrō	porrīs
Vocative	porrum	porra

Descendants

Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: por, pur
Italian: porro
- → Alemannic German: Bor
Old French: por
- ⇒ Old French: poiree
  - French: poireau
    - Haitian Creole: powo
  - Norman: pouothé
- ⇒ Old French: poree, poret
  - Middle French: porrée, porret
    - French: porrette
      - → English: porret
    - Walloon: poret, porea
      - → Limburgish: poor
    - → German: Porree
      - → Hungarian: póré
      - → Russian: порей (porej)
    - → Low German: Porree
  - → English: porray
  - → Hungarian: paraj
  - → Luxembourgish: Porrett
  - → Middle Dutch: poreye
    - Dutch: prei
    - West Flemish: pret
Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: puerru
Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Catalan: porro
Old Portuguese: [Term?]
- Galician: porro
- Portuguese: porra, porro
Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: porra, porro, puerro
→ Albanian: porr
→ Basque: porru
→ Cornish: por
→ Czech: pór, pórek
→ Danish: porre
→ Faroese: purra
→ Norwegian Bokmål: purre
→ Polish: por
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: порилук
- Latin: poriluk
→ Slovak: pór
→ Slovene: por
→ Swedish: purjo, purjolök
- → Finnish: purjo

References

porrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
porrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
porrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
porrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
Walde, Alois (1910), “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602

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