pomme

See also: pommé

English

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)

  1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.

Usage notes
  • Sometimes pommeis (and pomeis) are used as singulars rather than plurals; see those entries for examples.

See also
metals main colours less common colours
tincture orargentgulesazuresablevertpurpuretennéorangesanguine
depiction a shield of gold a shield of silver a shield of red a shield of blue a shield of black a shield of green a shield of purple a shield of brownish orange a shield of bright orange a shield of blood red
roundel (in parentheses: semé): a circle of gold
bezant (bezanty)		a circle of silver
plate (platy)		a circle of red
torteau (tortelly)		a circle of blue
hurt (hurty)		a circle of black
pellet (pellety), ogress		a circle of green
pomme

a circle of purple
golpe (golpy)		a circle of orange
orange (semé of oranges)		a circle of blood red
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof: a drop of gold
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)		a drop of silver
d'eau (of water)		a drop of red
de sang (of blood)		a drop of blue
de larmes (of tears)		a drop of black
de poix

(of pitch)		a drop of green
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)		a drop of purple



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azureermineermines, counter-ermineerminoispeanvaircounter-vairpotentcounter-potentbleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction a circle of wavy blue and silver bars a shield of ermine a shield of ermines a shield of erminois a shield of pean a shield of vair a shield of countervair a shield of potent a shield of counterpotent

References
  • Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

Estonian

Noun

pomme

  1. partitive plural of pomm

French
une pomme
une pomme d'arrosoir

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /pɔm/

  • audio(file)

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. 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
  2. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size
  3. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead
    Synonym: pommeau
    la pomme d’arrosoir ― the nozzle of a watering can
  4. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple
  5. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce
    pomme épineuse ― jimsonweed
  6. (colloquial) the head or face
  7. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot
    C’est la reine des pommes ! ― She's the queen of nutters!
    • 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!
  8. (by ellipsis) potato (from pomme de terre)
  9. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (from the association with the Judgment of Paris)
    Elle mérite la pomme. ― She's a real beaut.
  10. (Canada, derogatory, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society

Verb

pomme

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer
  2. second-person singular present imperative of pommer
  3. third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: ponm
  • Haitian Creole: pòm
  • Louisiana Creole: pòm
  • Mauritian Creole: pom
  • Seychellois Creole: ponm
  • → 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

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Noun

pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. (Jersey) apple

Derived terms

Old French

Noun

pomme oblique singular, f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

  1. Alternative form of pome
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