pruna

See also: prunã, prună, and prüna

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin prūnum, via its plural prūna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɾu.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɾu.na]

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Noun

pruna f (plural prunes)

1. plum (fruit)

Further reading

• “pruna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpruː.na/, [ˈpruːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpru.na/, [ˈpruːnä]

Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze, burn”); compare Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”). If so, cognate to Albanian prush (“embers”) and Sanskrit प्लोषति (ploṣati, “to scorch”).

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Noun

prūna f (genitive prūnae); first declension

1. A burning coal, live coal, glowing charcoal; embers.

   Synonym: favilla

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	prūna	prūnae
genitive	prūnae	prūnārum
dative	prūnae	prūnīs
accusative	prūnam	prūnās
ablative	prūnā	prūnīs
vocative	prūna	prūnae

Coordinate terms

• carbō

Descendants

• Aromanian: sprunã
• Catalan: espurna
• ⇒ Italian: brunice

Etymology 2

Noun

prūna

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of prūnum

Descendants

See prūnum.

References

• “pruna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pruna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pruna 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)
• pruna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

pruna

1. Alternative form of prune

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pruna, plural of prunum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾuna/ [ˈpɾu.na]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: pru‧na

Noun

pruna f (plural prunas)

1. plum

   Synonym: ciruela

Further reading

• “pruna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10