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5-letter words (1 found)

PRUNE,

4-letter words (4 found)

PERN,PUER,PURE,RUNE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ERN,NEP,NUR,PEN,PER,PRE,PUN,PUR,REN,REP,RUE,RUN,URE,URN,URP,

2-letter words (9 found)

EN,ER,NE,NU,PE,RE,UN,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 30 words from prune according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of prune

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Definitions and meaning of prune

prune

Alternative forms

  • proin (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /pɹuːn/
  • (General American)IPA(key): /pɹun/
  • (General Australian)IPA(key): /pɹʉːn/
  • (Wales, Ottawa Valley)IPA(key): /pɹɪu̯n/
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.

Noun

prune (plural prunes)

  1. (obsolete) A plum.
  2. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
    Hyponym: alubukhara
  3. (figurative) Something wrinkly like a prune.
  4. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Verb

prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
Synonyms
  • see Thesaurus:old woman
Hypernyms
  • fruit
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English prunen, prounen, proinen, from Old French proignier (“to trim the feathers with the beak”), earlier prooignier, ultimately from Latin pro- ("front") + rotundus (“round”) 'to round-off the front'.

Verb

prune (third-person singular simple present prunes, present participle pruning, simple past and past participle pruned)

  1. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
  3. (transitive) To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
  4. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
  5. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
Derived terms
  • pruning
  • alpha-beta pruning en
Translations

Anagrams

  • Perun, unrep

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁyn/

Noun

prune f (plural prunes)

  1. plum
  2. (slang) ticket (“traffic citation”)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “prune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

prūne

  1. vocative singular of prūnus

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • pruna

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), προῦμνον (proûmnon). Doublet of plomme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpriu̯n(ə)/

Noun

prune (plural prunes)

  1. A plum (fruit of Prunus domestica)
  2. A prune (dried plum)
  3. (pathology) A large, rounded boil.

Descendants

  • English: prune

References

  • “prūne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-26.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum.

Noun

prune oblique singular, f (oblique plural prunes, nominative singular prune, nominative plural prunes)

  1. plum (fruit)

Descendants

  • French: prune
  • Norman: preune
  • Walloon: pronne
  • → Middle English: prune, pruna
    • English: prune

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpru.ne/

Noun

prune

  1. plural of prună

Source: wiktionary.org