persicum

Latin

Etymology

Ellipsis of persicum pōmum (“Persian fruit”), from Persae (“Persians”). Compare Ancient Greek Περσική (Persikḗ, “Persia”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.kum/, [ˈpɛr.sɪ.kũ]

Noun

persicum n (genitive persicī); second declension

peach (fruit)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	persicum	persica
Genitive	persicī	persicōrum
Dative	persicō	persicīs
Accusative	persicum	persica
Ablative	persicō	persicīs
Vocative	persicum	persica

Related terms

Descendants

Istriot: pirsigheîn (diminutive form)
Ligurian: pèrsego
Neapolitan: piérzeco
Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: piescu
Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Catalan: préssec
- Occitan: persec
Old Portuguese: [Term?]
- Galician: pexego
- Portuguese: pêssego
  - → Kabuverdianu: pésigu
Old Spanish: priesco, presco
- Spanish: piesco, prisco
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: piersul
- Romansch: persic
Sicilian: pèrsicu
Venetian: persego
→ Afrikaans: perske
→ Belarusian: персік (pjersik)
→ Dutch: perzik
- → Unami: pilkesh
→ Estonian: virsik
→ Icelandic: ferskja
→ Malay: persik
- Indonesian: persik
→ Irish: péitseog
→ Latvian: persiks
→ Lithuanian: persikas
→ Low German: Peersch
→ Malagasy: paiso (probably)
→ Manx: peitshag, pershagh
→ Middle High German: pfersich
- Alemannic German: Fërsich
- Central Franconian:
  Transylvanian Saxon: Piërsch
- German: Pfirsich
  - → Norwegian: fersken
  - → Swedish: persika
    - → Finnish: persikka
- Rhine Franconian:
  Pennsylvania German: Pasching
- Yiddish: פֿערשקע‎ (ferschke)
→ Mongolian: персик (persik)
→ Old English: persoc
→ Russian: персик (persik)
→ Scottish Gaelic: peitseag
→ Slavic: *bersky
- Bulgarian: праскова (praskova)
- Czech: broskev
- Macedonian: праска (praska)
- Polish: brzoskwinia
- Rusyn: броскыня (broskŷnja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic: бресква
  - Latin: breskva
- Slovak: broskyňa
- → Hungarian: barack
→ Ukrainian: персик (persyk)
→ West Frisian: pjisk, perzik

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