unedo

== Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. One only knows a folk etymology by Pliny that it comes from ūnum (“one”) + edō (“eat”) because only one fruit could be eaten at a time due to the foul taste—but the strawberry tree fruit is not commonly counted foul, albeit relatively bland. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊ.nɛ.doː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈuː.ne.do] === Noun === unedō m (genitive unedōnis); third declension strawberry tree Synonym: arbutus ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== *unedōna (“strawberry tree fruit”) ⇒ *udenōna (metathesis) French: olone ⇒ French: olonier (“strawberry tree”) (by 1900 died out everywhere but in Royan (Charente-Inférieure)) Sardinian: obioni, olioni, olidoni === References === “unedo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “unedo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.