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English
Noun
pruina
- (botany) A white powdery bloom found on some lichens
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with prūna (“a live coal”). More at freeze.
Pronunciation
Noun
pruīna f (genitive pruīnae); first declension
- rime, hoarfrost
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.357:
- Mollis erat tellūs rōrāta māne pruīnā.
- The earth was soft, bedewed with morning hoarfrost.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pruina 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)
- pruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Noun
pruina f (plural pruinas)
- pruina
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