Editing Pear (section)

== Etymology ==
The word ''pear'' is probably from Germanic ''pera'' as a [[loanword]] of [[Vulgar Latin]] ''pira'', the plural of ''pirum'', akin to Greek ''apios'' (from Mycenaean ''ápisos''),<ref>{{OEtymD|pear}}</ref> of Semitic origin (''pirâ''), meaning "fruit". The adjective ''[[wikt:pyriform|pyriform]]'' or ''piriform'' means pear-shaped.<ref>{{cite web |title=pyriform, adj. |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/155457 |website=Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> The classical Latin word for a pear tree is ''[[:wikt:pirus#Latin|pirus]]'';<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dpirus |dictionary=[[A Latin Dictionary]] |first1=Charlton T. |last1=Lewis |first2=Charles |last2=Short |title=pĭrus |date=1879 |publisher=Clarendon Press |via=the [[Perseus Project]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515000656/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dpirus |archive-date=2022-05-15 }}</ref> ''pyrus'' is an alternate form of this word sometimes used in [[medieval Latin]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |dictionary=Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis |author=[[Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange]] |title=PYRUS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515000627/https://logeion.uchicago.edu/pyrus |archive-date=2022-05-15 |url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/pyrus |via=[[Logeion]]}}</ref>