pomme

• pomey

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.

• IPA^(key): /pɑm/, or like French, /pɔm/

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pomme (plural pommes or pommeis)

1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.

• Sometimes pommeis (and pomeis) are used as singulars rather than plurals; see those entries for examples.

• Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

pomme

1. partitive plural of pomm

Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

IPA^(key): /pɔm/

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pomme f (plural pommes)

1. apple (fruit)

   manger une pomme ― eat an apple

   une tarte aux pommes ― an apple pie

   une gosette aux pommes, un chausson aux pommes ― an apple turnover

   la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre ― the apple never falls far from the tree

2. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size
3. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead

   Synonym: pommeau

   la pomme d’arrosoir ― the nozzle of a watering can

4. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple
5. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce

   pomme épineuse ― jimsonweed

6. (colloquial) the head or face
7. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot

   C’est la reine des pommes ! ― She's the queen of nutters!

   • 1972, Hervé Bazin, Cri de la chouette, Grasset, page 222:

     C’est le carreau-loupe qui vient de disparaître, hé, pomme !

     It's the magnifying-glass that just disappeared, eh, idiot!

8. (by ellipsis) potato (from pomme de terre)
9. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (from the association with the Judgment of Paris)

   Elle mérite la pomme. ― She's a real beaut.

10. (Canada, derogatory, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society

pomme

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer
2. second-person singular present imperative of pommer
3. third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pommer

• “pomme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• paomme (Guernsey)
• poume (continental Norman)
• poumme (Jersey)
• pum (Sark)

From Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

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pomme f (plural pommes)

1. (Jersey) apple

pomme oblique singular, f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

1. Alternative form of pome