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Translation

apple

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Word origin

Borrowed from French pomme, apple, from Latin pomum, which meant fruit in general. French narrowed the fruit word to the apple, and Esperanto took it in that narrowed sense. The apple tree is a pomarbo or pomujo.

Origin
French
Root
pomum
English cognates
pomology, pommel

Examples

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I eat an apple every day.

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The apples fell from the tree.

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She gave him a red apple.

Where this fits

Word family

Words built on pomo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.

  • pomujonoun

    apple tree

    pomo-uj-: the tree that bears apples

  • potato

    teropomo

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This word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 7: pomo, trakti, lakto and 6 more words.