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語源

• Per De Vaan a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source, original form something like (a)pisom reflected also in Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́πῐον (ắpĭon, “pear”) and ᾰ̓́πῐος (ắpĭos, “pear tree”). Also compare Aramaic 𐡐𐡀𐡓𐡀 (pera, “fruit”).
• Per Trubachyov ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peys-, akin to Latin pinsō, pistus, Proto-Slavic *pьšeno (whence Russian пшено́ (pšenó)). Compare Proto-Slavic *kruša (voiced counterpart: *gruša, whence Russian гру́ша (grúša)) akin to *krušiti (> Russian круши́ть (krušítʹ)).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɪ.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpiː.rum]

名詞

pirum n (genitive pirī); second declension

1. a pear (fruit)

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• perula (Medieval Latin)
• pirācium (noun)
• pirārius (adjective) (Medieval Latin)
• pirifōrmis (adjective)

関連する語

• pirus (“pear tree”)

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pirum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.