cucumis

See also: Cucumis

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυκυος (kukuos), a wanderwort likely ultimately from Sumerian 𒄾 (ukuš₂, “cucumber”) or an unidentified pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language; compare Arabic كُوسَا‎ (kūsā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.mɪs]

Noun

cucumis m (genitive cucumeris); third declension

1. cucumber

Declension

The declension of this noun is varied. When declined like a parisyllabic i-stem, the accusative singular may be cucumem and the ablative singular may be cucumī.

Third declension. Case Singular Plural nominative cucumis cucumerēs genitive cucumeris cucumerum dative cucumerī cucumeribus accusative cucumerem cucumerēs ablative cucumere cucumeribus vocative cucumis cucumerēs

Third declension i-stem. Case Singular Plural nominative cucumis cucumēs genitive cucumis cucumium dative cucumī cucumibus accusative cucumem cucumēs ablative cucume cucumibus vocative cucumis cucumēs

Derived terms

• cucumerāceus
• cucumerārium
• cucumeriformis, cucumiformis

Descendants

• Catalan: cogombre
• English: cucumber, cucumiform
• French: concombre
• Friulian: cudumar
• Galician: cogombro
• Italian: cocomero
• Occitan: cocombre

• Portuguese: cogombro
• Romanian: cucumăr
• Spanish: cohombro, cogombro
• Translingual: Cucumis
• Venetian: cocomaro, cocomero, cugumero
• Welsh: cucumer

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cucuma (“kettle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ku.miːs/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.miːs]

Noun

cucumīs

1. dative plural of cucuma
2. ablative plural of cucuma

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