Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Pisum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – the pea and close relatives.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Faboideae - subfamily; Fabeae - tribe

Latin

Noun

pisum n ‎(genitive pisī); second declension

1. pea (plant)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: pea, pease
• Franco-Provençal: pês
• French: pois
• Norman: pais (Jersey), peis (Guernsey)

References

• pisum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PISUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pisum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.