prunus

See also: Prunus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prūnus. Doublet of prune and plum.

Noun

prunus (uncountable)

1. (ceramics) A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
   • 2009 January 23, Eve M. Kahn, “Conversation-Piece Buys, Maybe. Intriguing Histories, Definitely.”, in New York Times‎:

     […] a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but “in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus.”

Anagrams

• nupurs, run ups, run-ups, runs up, runups, upruns

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek προύνη (proúnē), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpruː.nus]

Noun

prūnus f (genitive prūnī); second declension

1. plum tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prūnus	prūnī
genitive	prūnī	prūnōrum
dative	prūnō	prūnīs
accusative	prūnum	prūnōs
ablative	prūnō	prūnīs
vocative	prūne	prūnī

Derived terms

• prūnniceus
• prūnum

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: prun, prunu, purnu
  • Romanian: prun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pruno, ⇒ prugno, prugnolo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: abruño, agruño, abrunho
    • Portuguese: abrunho
  • Spanish: pruno
• Borrowings:
  • → English: prunus
  • → Translingual: Prunus

References

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