cucumis
See also: Cucumis
Latin
Etymology 1
A wanderwort likely ultimately from Sumerian 𒄾 (ukuš2, “cucumber”) or an unidentified pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language; see Arabic قِثَّاء (qiṯṯāʔ, “snake melon”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkʊkʊmɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkuːkumis]
Noun
cucumis m (genitive cucumeris or cucumis); third declension
- Armenian cucumber, snake melon(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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Declension
Third-declension noun (imparisyllabic non-i-stem or i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī; two different stems).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cucumis | cucumerēs cucumēs |
Genitive | cucumeris cucumis |
cucumerum cucumium |
Dative | cucumerī cucumī |
cucumeribus cucumibus |
Accusative | cucumerem cucumim |
cucumerēs cucumēs cucumīs |
Ablative | cucumere cucumī |
cucumeribus cucumibus |
Vocative | cucumis | cucumerēs cucumēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cocomero (“watermelon”)
- Padanian:
- Emilian: cucümar, cucòmbar, cheumar, cumar, gombar
- Friulian: cudumar
- Gallo-Italic of Sicily: cocombar
- Ligurian: chighéumou, chigèumori, cughéumai, chigèummo
- Lombard: cucumer, cucumro; cocomber; chicumro (plural chicumbri)
- Piedmontese: cucumer, cocom, cocomo, cocomber
- Romansch: cucumer, cucumera (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
- Venetian: cocomaro, cocomero, cugumero, cucùmaro
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
Etymology 2
Inflected form of cucuma (“kettle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.miːs/, [ˈkʊkʊmiːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkuːkumis]
Noun
(deprecated template usage) cucumīs
References
- “cucumis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cucumis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cucumis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ukuš”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary[1], University of Pennsylvania, 2006
- Janick, Jules, Paris, Harry S., Parrish, David C. (2007) “The Cucurbits of Mediterranean Antiquity: Identification of Taxa from Ancient Images and Descriptions”, in Annals of Botany[2], volume 100, number 7, , pages 1441–1457
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