porrum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *porso-, from Proto-Indo-European *pers-ó-s. Cognate with Ancient Greek πράσον (práson), Sanskrit पर्ष (parṣa), and Albanian presh. Compare Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.rum/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.rum/,

Noun

porrum n (genitive porrī); second declension

leek
chives

Usage notes

According to multiple Roman grammatici, this word is neuter in the singular and masculine in the plural. While the masculine and neuter singulars are found with the same frequency, the neuter plural has indeed one single attestation.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porrum	porrī porra
Genitive	porrī	porrōrum
Dative	porrō	porrīs
Accusative	porrum	porrōs
Ablative	porrō	porrīs
Vocative	porrum	porrī

Derived terms

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: por, pur
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: porro
  - → Alemannic German: Bor
- Sicilian: porru
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: pòr ⇒ porass, porèn
  - Ligurian: pöro ⇒ pörin, porin
  - Lombard: pòr, pòrc
  - Piedmontese: pòr, pòro ⇒ poret, porät, porin
  - Romagnol: pòr, pòrc
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pôr ⇒ porrel
- Old French: por ⇒ poree, poiree
  - ⇒ French: poireau, porreau
    - Haitian Creole: powo
  - Norman: pouothé
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: porro
  - → Spanish: porro
- Gascon: pòr
- Occitan: pòrre ⇒ porret
  ⇒ Auvergnat: porrada
  
  ⇒ Limousin: porrat, porrada
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: porro
- Asturian: puerru
- Galician: porro
- Portuguese: porra, porro
- Spanish: porra, puerro

Borrowings

→ Albanian: porr
→ Basque: porru
→ Cornish: por
→ Czech: pór, pórek
→ Danish: porre
→ Faroese: purra
→ Limburgish: poor
→ Norwegian Bokmål: purre
→ Polish: por
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: порилук
- Latin script: poriluk
→ Slovak: pór
→ Slovene: por
→ Swedish: purjo, purjolök
- → Finnish: purjo, purjosipuli

References

“porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“porrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
porrum 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)
porrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 481-2
“porrum, porrus” in volume X, 1, column 2777, line 39 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Walde, Alois (1910) “porrum, porrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 601–602