Etymology
A loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source, original form something like (a)pisom reflected also in Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́πῐον (ápion, “pear”) and ᾰ̓́πῐος (ápios, “pear tree”). Also compare Aramaic 𐡐𐡀𐡓𐡀 (pera, “fruit”).
Noun
pirum n (genitive pirī); second declension
- a pear (fruit)
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Proto-Brythonic: *per (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *peru (see there for further descendants)
- → Irish: piorra
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- → Scottish Gaelic: peur
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pira (reanalyzed as feminine singular)
- Dalmatian: paira
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: pera
- Old French: peire
- Old Occitan: pera
- Old Galician-Portuguese: pera
- Old Spanish: pera
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: pira
- Sicilian: piru
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: [Term?] (diminutive)
- Padanian:
- Friulian: piruç
- Piedmontese: pruss
References
- “pĭrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pirum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pirum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pirum 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, →ISBN, page 467