Editing Prunus (section)

=== Etymology ===
The ''[[Online Etymology Dictionary]]'' presents the customary derivations of plum<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=plum |encyclopedia=Online Etymological Dictionary |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=plum}}</ref> and prune<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=prune |encyclopedia=Online Etymological Dictionary |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=prune}}</ref> from Latin ''prūnum'',<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1890 |title=prūnum |encyclopedia=Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |url=http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.6:1:2066.latinsmall}}</ref> the plum fruit. The tree is ''prūnus'';<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=1890 |title=prūnus |encyclopedia=Lewis's Elementary Latin Dictionary |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |url=http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.6:1:2067.latinsmall}}</ref> and [[Natural History (Pliny)|Pliny]] uses ''prūnus silvestris'' to mean the [[blackthorn]]. The word is not native Latin, but is a loan from Greek προῦνον ({{transliteration|grc|prounon}}), which is a variant of προῦμνον ({{transliteration|grc|proumnon}}),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=προῦμνον |encyclopedia=Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |url=http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.59:3:144.lsj}}</ref> origin unknown. The tree is προύμνη ({{transliteration|grc|proumnē}}).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=προύμνη |encyclopedia=Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |url=http://artfl.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.59:3:143.lsj}}</ref> Most dictionaries follow Hoffman, ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen'', in making some form of the word a loan from a pre-Greek language of [[Asia Minor]], related to [[Phrygian language|Phrygian]].

The first use of ''Prunus'' as a genus name was by Carl Linnaeus in ''[[Hortus Cliffortianus]]'' of 1737,<ref>{{cite book |last=Linnaeus |first=Carolus |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/690#/summary |title=Hortus Cliffortianus |date=1737 |publisher=<!-- [s.n.], --> |location=Amsterdam |page=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13838#page/241/mode/1up 186] |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.690 |access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref> which went on to become ''[[Species Plantarum]]''.