pomum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.mum/, [ˈpoːmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.mum/, [ˈpɔːmum]

From Proto-Italic *poomos. Likely from Proto-Italic *po-emo- (“picked off”), or possibly *po-omo- or *pe-omo-.[1]

pōmum n (genitive pōmī); second declension

1. any type of fruit (applied to apples, cherries, nuts, berries, figs, dates, etc.)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.253:

     stābat adhūc dūrīs fīcus dēnsissima pōmīs

     There stood a fig-tree loaded with fruit, [although it was] still hard [unripe].
     There stood a fig-tree, still loaded with unripe fruit.
     (Joins the ablative plurals dūrīs and pōmīs.)

2. fruit tree

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Pōmōna
• pomus

• “pomum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pomum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pomum 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)
• pomum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pōmum

1. accusative singular of pōmus