poma

poma

1. walking stick

Inherited from Old Catalan poma, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”) (reinterpreted as a feminine singular).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpo.ma]

• Audio (Valencian)

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poma f (plural pomes)

1. apple

   Synonym: maçana

• “poma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “poma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “poma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “poma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin pōma, nominative plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpomɐ]

poma f (plural pomas)

1. (archaic) fruit; apple

   Synonym: mazá

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 471:

     diz o conto que, cabo dũ rrío que sae do paraýso terreal, estaua hũa áruor, et aquelas pomas que dela caẽ ẽno rrío ...

     the tale says that, by the river that comes out of the Garden of Eden, there was a tree, and that fruits that fell to the river from it ...

2. husk (of a cob)

   Synonyms: carocha, folello, follato

3. needle (leaf of pine)

   Synonym: agulla

• pomar

• “poma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “poma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “poma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “poma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “poma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

pōma n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pōmum

From Old Occitan poma, from Latin pōma, nominative plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpumɒ]

• Audio

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poma f (plural pomas)

1. apple

Borrowed from Latin poma, nominative plural of pomum (“fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoma/ [ˈpo.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: po‧ma

poma f (plural pomas)

1. pome
2. (poetic, literary) fruit

   Synonyms: fruta, fruto

3. (rare) apple

   Synonym: manzana

• “poma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014