cucurum

Latin

Alternative forms

• cucurus, cucura, coccura

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κούκουρον (koúkouron), κούκκουρον (koúkkouron, “quiver”), from Hunnic *kukur, from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather flask”).

Noun

cucurum

1. (Medieval Latin) quiver

Descendants

• → Albanian: kukur (or from Greek)
  • → Romanian: cucură
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants)

References

• cucurum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)