pirum

See also: pīrum

Latin

Alternative forms

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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pirum n (genitive pirī); second declension

  1. a pear (fruit)

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pirum pira
Genitive pirī pirōrum
Dative pirō pirīs
Accusative pirum pira
Ablative pirō pirīs
Vocative pirum pira

Derived terms

Descendants
Descendants of pirum in other languages
  • → 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)
  • ⇒ 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
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