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See also: Cucumis
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A wanderwort likely ultimately from Sumerian 𒄾 (ukuš2, “cucumber”) or an unidentified pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language; see Arabic قِثَّاء (qiṯṯāʾ, “snake melon”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.mɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkuː.ku.mis]

cucumis (1)
Noun[edit]
cucumis m (genitive cucumeris or cucumis); third declension
- Armenian cucumber, snake melon, vegetable melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. flexuosus
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) cucumber
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Inflected form of cucuma (“kettle”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.miːs/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.miːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkuː.ku.mis]
Noun[edit]
cucumīs
References[edit]
- 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, 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[1], volume 100, issue 7, DOI: , pages 1441–1457
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