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pomade

Meaningan apple

Common meaning: a scented oil for the hair

Journey through time

  1. Latinpomumsource
  2. Italianpomada‘an ointment’source
  3. Frenchpommadesource
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsan ointment → a scented oil for the hairpomade‘a scented oil for the hair’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin pomum ‘an apple’.

Roots

  • pomum Latin “an apple”

Related words

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