See also: pommé

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɑm/, or like French, /pɔm/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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pomme (plural pommes or pommeis)

  1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.

Usage notes

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  • Sometimes pommeis (and pomeis) are used as singulars rather than plurals; see those entries for examples.
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metals main colours less common colours
tincture or argent gules azure sable vert purpure tenné orange sanguine
depiction                    
roundel (in parentheses: semé):  
bezant (bezanty)
 
plate (platy)
 
torteau (tortelly)
 
hurt (hurty)
 
pellet (pellety), ogress
 
pomme

 
golpe (golpy)
 
orange (semé of oranges)
 
guze (semé of guzes)
goutte (noun) / gutty (adj) thereof:  
(goutte / gutty) d'or (of gold)
 
d'eau (of water)
 
de sang (of blood)
 
de larmes (of tears)
 
de poix

(of pitch)
 
d'huile / d'olive (olive oil)
 



special roundel furs additional, uncommon tinctures:
tincture fountain, syke: barry wavy argent and azure ermine ermines, counter-ermine erminois pean vair counter-vair potent counter-potent bleu celeste, brunâtre, carnation, cendrée (iron, steel, acier), copper, murrey
depiction                  

References

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  • Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

Champenois

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French pome, from Latin pōma. Cognate with French pomme, Bourguignon pome, Picard peimme, Norman poume, Walloon peme, Franco-Provençal poma and Occitan poma.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /põm/

Noun

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pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. (Troyen) apple

References

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  • Jean Daunay, Parlers de Champagne, 1998
  • Baudouin, Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux (Ville-sous-la-Ferté), 1887

Estonian

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Noun

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pomme

  1. partitive plural of pomm

French

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une pomme
 
une pomme d'arrosoir

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (taken off). Compare English pome.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /pɔm/

Noun

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pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. apple (fruit)
    manger une pommeeat an apple
    une tarte aux pommesan apple pie
    une gosette aux pommes, un chausson aux pommesan apple turnover
    la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbrethe apple never falls far from the tree
  2. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size
  3. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead
    Synonym: pommeau
    la pomme d’arrosoirthe nozzle of a watering can
  4. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple
  5. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce
    pomme épineusejimsonweed
  6. (colloquial) the head or face
  7. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot
    C’est la reine des pommes !She's the queen of nutters!
    • 1972, Hervé Bazin, Cri de la chouette, Grasset, page 222:
      C’est le carreau-loupe qui vient de disparaître, hé, pomme !
      It's the magnifying-glass that just disappeared, eh, idiot!
  8. (by ellipsis) potato (from pomme de terre)
  9. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (from the association with the Judgment of Paris)
    Elle mérite la pomme.She's a real beaut.
  10. (Canada, derogatory, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society

Verb

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pomme

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer
  2. second-person singular present imperative of pommer
  3. third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Antillean Creole: ponm
  • Bourbonnais Creole:
    • Mauritian Creole: pom
    • Seychellois Creole: ponm
  • Haitian Creole: pòm
  • Louisiana Creole: pòm
  • Amharic: ፖም (pom)
  • East Futuna: pomo
  • English: pomme, pomey
  • Esperanto: pomo
  • German: Pommes (via the phrase pommes frites)
  • Khmer: ប៉ុម (pom)
  • Malagasy: paoma
  • Ngazidja Comorian: pomu
  • Rwanda-Rundi: pome
  • Tai Dam: ꪝ꪿ꪮꪣ
  • Vietnamese: bôm, bom
  • Wolof: pom

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Norman

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Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrm

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Etymology

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From Old French pome, pume, from Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (fruit), from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (taken off).

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Noun

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pomme f (plural pommes)

  1. (Jersey) apple

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Old French

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Noun

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pomme oblique singularf (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

  1. Alternative form of pome