Plum
/plʌm/noun
A sweet, fleshy fruit with a single hard stone, or the tree that bears it.
Did you know?The English word plum ultimately comes from Latin prūnum, and that same ancient fruit-name also gave English the botanical term prunes for dried plums.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*preu-
“to flow, drip, or sprout”
Latin
Latin
prūnum
“the plum fruit”
Late Latin
Latin
prūna
“a plum; also a kind of glowing coal”
Old French
OFr
plume / prune
“plum”
Middle English
English
plume / plom
“plum”
Modern English
English
plum
“the fruit or the tree”
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