Translation
apple
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.
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