pome

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊm
• Homophone: poem (some pronunciations)

pome (plural pomes or (heraldry) pomeis)

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.

   Synonym: (obsolete) apple

   Hypernym: fruit

   Hyponyms: apple, pear, quince

   Coordinate terms: berry, drupe, hesperidium

   The best-known example of a pome is the apple.

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.
3. Alternative form of pomme (“green roundel in heraldry”)

• pomaceous
• pome-citron
• pomiferous

• pomegranate

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.

• pome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• mope, poem, poëm

From Old French pome, from Latin poma, plural of pomum.

pome f (plural pomes)

1. apple

• puam, póom

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.

pome m

1. (Tredici Comuni) tree

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• pēme (Florida)

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [póˑmi]
• Hyphenation: po‧me

pome

1. we

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From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, interpreted as a feminine singular.

pome f (plural pomis)

1. fruit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.me/
• Rhymes: -ome
• Hyphenation: pó‧me

pome m (invariable)

1. Abbreviation of pomeriggio.

• pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːm(ə)/, /ˈpoːm(ə)/, /ˈpuːm(ə)/, /ˈpɔm(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːm(ə), -ɔːm(ə)

pome (plural pomes)

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

• pome garnate

• English: pome

• “pō̆me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

• pomme, poume, pume

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

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

1. apple

• Bourguignon: pome
• Champenois: pomme
• French: pomme (see there for further descendants)
• Franc-Comtois: pamme
• Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman), pum (Sark), poume, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), pum (Sark), pum, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman)
• Picard: peimme
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: poume
• Walloon: peme
• → Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
  • English: pome