pomus

From Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) (whence po-) + *h₁em- (“take”) (whence emō). ^[1] Compare the same semantic development in Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

pōmus f (genitive pōmī); second declension

1. fruit
2. fruit tree

Second-declension noun.

• pōmum

• “pomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pomus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pomus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pomus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.