pirum – Latin noun declension

Noun: pirum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	pirum
Plural	pira

Genitive

Singular	pirī
Plural	pirōrum

Dative

Singular	pirō
Plural	pirīs

Accusative

Singular	pirum
Plural	pira

Ablative

Singular	pirō
Plural	pirīs

Vocative

Singular	pirum
Plural	pira

Sample Sentences

Si in pirum silvaticam inserueris pirum quamvis bonam, non fore tam iucundam, quam si in eam quae silvestris non sit. (If you graft a pear, no matter how good, onto a wild pear, it will not be as delicious as onto one that is not wild.) [37 BC, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum libri tres, volume 1:]

Nouns inflected like pirum

palmētum, miliardum, rēctangulum, bactērium, frūctum, melimēlum, scītum, scūtum, lanthanum, sertum, sacrum, pentaptōtum, dēcrēmentum, sorbum, fundibulum, alphabētum, siglum, signum, flābrum, nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. * 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”).
2. * 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)). See: Latin Nouns 'pinsō'.

Verbs referencing "pirum"

Dutch Nouns peer, English Nouns pear, French Nouns poire, Romanian Nouns pară, German Nouns Birne, Asturian Nouns pera, Catalan Nouns pera, Faroese Nouns pera, Galician Nouns pera, Icelandic Nouns pera, Italian Nouns pera, Old Portuguese Nouns pera, Portuguese Nouns pera, Spanish Nouns pera, Swedish Nouns päron, Middle English Nouns pere, English Nouns perry, Danish Nouns pære, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns pære, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns pære, Irish Nouns piorra, Ancient Greek Nouns ἄπιον, Ancient Greek Nouns ἄπιος.