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Originally Posted by Perikles
Latin pomum fruit, later apple, + (malum) granatum = apple having many seeds
By the way, you ought to call them Kiwi Fruits, to distinguish between them and the bird, which is what I thought the thread was about. I remember them being called Chinese gooseberries.
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Slight digression here.
I always thought it strange that the Spanish and the Portuguese use manzana and maça for apple, when most other "latinate" languages use the
pomum root: pomme, poma, pom, pomo...