προῦμνον

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Loanword from an Anatolian language of Asia Minor.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

προῦμνον (proûmnonn (genitive προύμνου); second declension

  1. plum (fruit)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Latin: prūnum (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “προύμνου”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1241

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