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pirum

pirum

Latin

Noun

pirum n ‎(genitive pirī); second declension

a pear (fruit)

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pirum	pira
genitive	pirī	pirōrum
dative	pirō	pirīs
accusative	pirum	pira
ablative	pirō	pirīs
vocative	pirum	pira

Derived terms

perula (Medieval Latin)
pirārius (Medieval Latin)

Related terms

pirus

Descendants

Aromanian: pearã
Catalan: pera
Dalmatian: paira
Danish: pære
Dutch: peer
English: pear
Estonian: pirn
French: poire
Finnish: päärynä

Friulian: piruç
German: Birne
Irish: piorra
Italian: pera, pero
Norman: paithe (Jersey), peire (continental Normandy), père (Guernsey)
Norwegian: pære
Occitan: pera
Portuguese: pera

Romanian: pară
Romansch: pair, paira
Sardinian: pira
Sicilian: piru
Spanish: pera
Swedish: päron
Welsh: pêr
Yiddish: באַר ‎(bar)

References

pĭrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pirum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
PIRUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pirum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 467