pruina

English

Noun

pruina

1. (botany) A white powdery bloom found on some lichens

Related terms

• pruinose
• pruinosity

Anagrams

• unipar, unpair

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with prūna (“a live coal”). More at freeze.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pruˈiː.na/, [pruˈiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pruˈi.na/, [pruˈiːnä]

Noun

pruīna f (genitive pruīnae); first declension

1. rime, hoarfrost
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.357:

     Mollis erat tellūs rōrāta māne pruīnā.

     The earth was [still] soft, bedewed with morning hoarfrost.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pruīna	pruīnae
genitive	pruīnae	pruīnārum
dative	pruīnae	pruīnīs
accusative	pruīnam	pruīnās
ablative	pruīnā	pruīnīs
vocative	pruīna	pruīnae

Descendants

• → Esperanto: prujno
• French: bruine
• Galician: pruína
• Italian: brina
• Piedmontese: brin-a
• Portuguese: pruína
• Romanian: pruină
• Venetan: puìna, poìna

References

• “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pruina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pruina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pruina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

pruina f (plural pruinas)

1. pruina

Further reading

• “pruina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10