pomegranate

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
2. The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
3. A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
4. (Australia, colloquial, derogatory, obsolete) A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

Adj

Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.

Concetti

melograno

melagrana

granata

melogranato

grenada

pomogranato

mela granata

melagrano

Punica granatum

melagranata

pomo granato

granato

sinonimi

pomegranate tree

Punica granatum

grenade

grenadine

apple of Grenada

Traduzioni

granada

grenade

Granatapfel

granaatappel

nar

romã

ρόδι

hinar

grenadier

granado

magrana

ροδιά

Grenadine

magraner

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: pome-garnet

Affine francese: grenade

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
* from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or
* directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).
The adjective is derived from the noun.