cogombro

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (“cucumber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈɣombɾʊ]

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Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

1. cucumber (fruit)
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 179:

     Toma hũu cogonbro et encheo de sangue, et vay aa orta du andã os vijte jnfantes, et da cõ el ẽnos peytos a Gonçaluo Gonçaluez, a aquel que vees que tẽ o açor na mão

2. cucumber plant

Derived terms

• cogombro do demo

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cogonbro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cogombro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cogombro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cogombro, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (“cucumber”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈɡõ.bɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈɡõ.bɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈɡõ.bɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈɡõ.bɾu/ [kuˈɣõ.bɾu]

Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

1. (obsolete) cucumber (the fruit of the cucumber plant, used as a vegetable)

   Synonym: pepino

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈɡombɾo/ [koˈɣ̞õm.bɾo]

Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

1. Alternative form of cohombro

Further reading

• “cogombro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014