Pomeranze
German
Etymology
15th century, from Medieval Latin pomerancium, from pomum (“fruit”) + arancia (“orange”), the latter from Arabic نارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang). Doublet of Orange. Cognate with Italian pomarancia (“sweet orange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔməˈʁant͡sə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -antsə
Noun
Pomeranze f (genitive Pomeranze, plural Pomeranzen)
- bitter orange
- Synonyms: Bitterorange, Bitterapfelsine
- (chiefly in compounds) a girl, by extension also any person, from the countryside or from a small town, who is unfamiliar with and easily impressed by city dwellers’ lifestyle
Declension
Declension of Pomeranze [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Pomeranze | die | Pomeranzen |
| genitive | einer | der | Pomeranze | der | Pomeranzen |
| dative | einer | der | Pomeranze | den | Pomeranzen |
| accusative | eine | die | Pomeranze | die | Pomeranzen |
Derived terms
- Dorfpomeranze, Kleinstadtpomeranze, Landpomeranze, Vorstadtpomeranze
- pomeranzenhaft, pomeranzig
Descendants
- → Czech: pomeranč
- → Polish: pomarańcza
- →? Yiddish: פּאָמעראַנץ (pomerants)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: поморанџа, поморанча
- Latin: pomorandža, pomoranča
Further reading
- “Pomeranze” in Duden online
- “Pomeranze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pomeranze”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
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