Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A plum. · The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. · Something wrinkly like a prune. · An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
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.
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