Translation
pear
Word origin
From Latin pirum, the pear, which also gave French poire, Italian pera and Spanish pera. The tree in Latin was pirus, feminine despite the ending, as fruit trees regularly were.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pirum
- English cognates
- pear, perry
Examples
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The pear is sweeter than the apple.
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Many pears hang on the tree.
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I ate a pear after dinner.
is the fruit. The tree is pirarbo or, with the tree suffix, o - the same pattern that gives pomarbo and o for the apple, and the reason it is worth learning the two words together rather than one at a time.
Watch the vowel against pero (a means, from per) and (a pair). Esperanto has no silent letters and no shifting stress, so the only thing keeping these apart in speech is that one vowel, said cleanly. is two syllables, PI-ro, with the stress where it always is: on the second-to-last.
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