prunum

From Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpruː.num/, [ˈpruː.nũ]

prūnum n (genitive prūnī); second declension

1. A plum fruit.

Second declension.

• prūnniceus
• prūnus

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: prunã
  • Romanian: prună
• Italian: prugna
• Old French: prune
  • French: prune
  • Norman: preune
  • Walloon: pronne
  • → English: prune
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: pruna
  • Occitan: pruna
• Old Portuguese: [Term?] (probably with influence from Proto-Celtic *agrinyos (“sloe”))
  • Galician: abruño
  • Portuguese: abrunho
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: brugnul
  • Romansch: prüna
• Sardinian: pruna
• Sicilian: pruna, prunu
• Spanish: bruno
• Venetian: brógna, brónba
• → Germanic: *prūmǭ (see there for further descendants)
• → Irish: prúna

• prunum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prunum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prunum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette