pomme
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See also: pommé
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑm/, or like French, /pɔm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
pomme (plural pommes or pommeis)
Usage notes
Related terms
See also
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References
- Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pome, from Latin pōma. Cognate with French pomme, Bourguignon pome, Picard peimme, Norman poume, Walloon peme, Franco-Provençal poma and Occitan poma.
Pronunciation
Noun
pomme f (plural pommes)
- (Troyen) apple
References
- Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne, 1998
- Baudouin, Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux (Ville-sous-la-Ferté), 1887
Noun
pomme
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”). Compare English pome.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
pomme f (plural pommes)
- apple (fruit)
- manger une pomme ― eat an apple
- une tarte aux pommes ― an apple pie
- une gosette aux pommes, un chausson aux pommes ― an apple turnover
- la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre ― the apple never falls far from the tree
- any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size
- the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead
- (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple
- (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce
- (colloquial) the head or face
- (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot
- 1972, Hervé Bazin, Cri de la chouette, Grasset, page 222:
- C’est le carreau-loupe qui vient de disparaître, hé, pomme !
- It's the magnifying-glass that just disappeared, eh, idiot!
- (by ellipsis) potato (from pomme de terre)
- (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (from the association with the Judgment of Paris)
- (Canada, derogatory, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society
Verb
pomme
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer
- second-person singular present imperative of pommer
- third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer
Derived terms
- aux pommes
- bonne pomme
- chanter la pomme
- comparer des pommes et des bananes
- comparer des pommes et des poires
- croquer la pomme
- cueillir la pomme
- cuillère à pomme parisienne
- escargot pomme
- être dans les pommes
- Grosse Pomme
- haut comme trois pommes
- jus de pomme
- la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre
- ma pomme
- marque à la pomme
- passe-pomme
- pomiforme
- pommage
- pommé
- Pomme
- pomme à cidre
- pomme à couteau
- pomme à cuire
- pomme cajou
- pomme cannelle
- Pomme Clochard
- pomme cythère
- pomme de Calville
- pomme de couteau
- pomme de discorde
- pomme de l’air
- pomme de mai
- pomme de Médée
- pomme de merveille
- pomme de Paradis
- pomme de pin
- pomme de pré
- pomme de reinette
- pomme de table
- pomme de terre
- pomme de terre en robe de chambre
- pomme de terre en robe des champs
- pomme de tire
- pomme duchesse
- pomme d’abricot
- pomme d’Adam
- pomme d’amour
- pomme d’éléphant
- pomme d’orange
- pomme épineuse
- pomme frite
- pomme liane
- pomme paille
- pomme pourrie
- pomme punique
- pomme purée
- pomme tapée
- pomme-cythère
- pomme-de-pin
- pomme-grenade
- pomme-liane
- pommeau
- pommer
- pommeraie
- pommes frites
- pommes soufflées
- pommette
- pommier
- pomo
- sa pomme
- se payer la pomme
- sucer la pomme
- sucre de pomme
- ta pomme
- tomber dans les pommes
- vert pomme
- vide-pomme
Related terms
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: ponm
- Bourbonnais Creole:
- Haitian Creole: pòm
- Louisiana Creole: pòm
- → Amharic: ፖም (pom)
- → East Futuna: pomo
- → English: pomme, pomey
- → Esperanto: pomo
- → German: Pommes (via the phrase pommes frites)
- → Khmer: ប៉ុម (pom)
- → Malagasy: paoma
- → Ngazidja Comorian: pomu
- → Rwanda-Rundi: pome
- → Tai Dam: ꪝ꪿ꪮꪣ
- → Vietnamese: bôm, bom
- → Wolof: pom
Further reading
- “pomme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French pome, pume, from Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”), from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
pomme f (plural pommes)
Derived terms
Noun
pomme oblique singular, f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)
- Alternative form of pome
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