romãa

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • rromaã

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin Rōma
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin rōmāna
Arabic رُمَّانَة (rummāna)influ.
Old Galician-Portuguese romãa

    Inherited from Latin rōmāna, and in the sense of pomegranate a phono-semantic matching of Arabic رُمَّانَة (rummāna, “pomegranate”).[1][2][3] Doublet of romana.

    Adjective

    romãa

    1. feminine singular of romão

    Noun

    romãa f (plural romãas)

    1. female equivalent of romão
    2. (Old Portuguese) pomegranate (fruit)
      Synonym: milgrãada

    Descendants

    • Portuguese: romã

    References

    1. ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 478, though the terminology of phono-semantic matching is unknown to this book.
    2. ^ Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne; Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869), Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎[1] (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 335
    3. ^ I.e. a Latin term not actually attested for this fruit or plant, or if so then borrowed from Portuguese, but frequently given to the exclusion of the Arabic term.
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