英単語

plumの意味・使い方・発音

plum

英 [plʌm] 美 [plʌm]
  • n.プラム; プルーン; 梅; フクシア
  • adj.
  • n. (プラム)人名;(ドイツ語、スペイン語)プラム;(イギリス語)プラム

語源


プラム

古英語のplum, プラム, プラムの木, 原語ゲルマン語の *prumon, プラム, ラテン語の prunum, プラムから。

英語の語源


plum
plum: [OE] Plum and prune ‘dried plum’ are ultimately the same word. Their common ancestor was Greek proumnon, a word which originated somewhere in Asia Minor. This was later contracted to prounon, and borrowed into Latin as prōnum. Its plural prōna came to be regarded in post-classical times as a singular, and this is where English gets prune from, but prōna was also borrowed into prehistoric Germanic, and many of its descendants here have had their r changed to l (the two are close together phonetically) – hence German pflaume, Swedish plommon, and English plum.
=> prune
plum (n.)
Old English plume "plum, plum tree," from an early Germanic borrowing (Middle Dutch prume, Dutch pruim, Old High German pfluma, pfruma, German Pflaume) from Vulgar Latin *pruna, from Latin prunum "plum," from Greek prounon, later form of proumnon, of unknown origin, perhaps from an Asiatic language (Phrygian?). Also see prune (n.). Change of pr- to pl- is peculiar to Germanic. The vowel shortened in early modern English. Meaning "something desirable" is first recorded 1780, probably in reference to the sugar-rich bits of a plum pudding, etc.

例文


1. Laura landed a plum job with a smart art gallery.
ローラはファッションギャラリーで美差を見つけた。

2.Italian plum tomatoes have a full flavour,and are best for cooking.
イタリアントマトは味が強く、料理に最適です。

3.The plum season is about to begin.
スモモを食べる季節が近づいてきた。

4.She 's landed a plum job at the BBC.
彼女はBBCで思い通りの仕事をしている。

5.The new job that he 's got is a real plum .
彼が見つけたこの新しい仕事は本当にすばらしい。

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