prune

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A plum.
2. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. (figuratively) Something wrinkly like a prune.
4. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Concetti

potare

prugna secca

prugna

sfrondare

ridurre

sfoltire

innestare

🔗

color prugna

susina

accorciare

sfrondano

diminuire

spuntare

tagliare

diramare

fesso

😫

mondare

rimpicciolire

tosare

sinonimi

trim

cut

lop

clip

plum

cut down

cut off

dried plum

dress

👗

cut off branches

crop

chop

lop off

cut back

break off

reap

chop off

shear

shorten

snip

pollard

rationalise

rationalize

harvest

reduce

peel

pick

⛏️

pluck

preserves

put down

razee

retrench

scale down

shrink

simpleton

space

stool

terrace

thin out

tiller

top

🔝

whittle down

make an opening

cut and hang down

cut shorter

leave space

prunus salicina

stair step

abbreviate

prune-purple

Traduzioni

élaguer

pruneau

podar

snoeien

Backpflaume

Pflaume

beschneiden

podar

prune

ameixa

stutzen

schneiden

abschneiden

émonder

tailler

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/pɹuːn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: prune

Ereditato da inglese medio: prunen

In summary

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.