cucurbita

See also: Cucurbita

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cucurbita.

Noun

cucurbita f (plural cucurbite)

1. gourd

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to cucumis (“cucumber”), or to corbis (“basket”), corbīta (“freight vessel”). Maybe from Sanskrit चिर्भट m (cirbhaṭa, “long melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. conomon syn. Cucumis melo var. utilissimus”), चर्भट m (carbhaṭa, “idem”), चिर्भटी f (cirbhaṭī, “idem”), but the mediation is unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈkur.bi.ta/, [kʊˈkʊrbɪt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈkur.bi.ta/, [kuˈkurbit̪ä]

Noun

cucurbita f (genitive cucurbitae); first declension

1. gourd, cucurbit, including watermelon
2. dolt

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cucurbita	cucurbitae
Genitive	cucurbitae	cucurbitārum
Dative	cucurbitae	cucurbitīs
Accusative	cucurbitam	cucurbitās
Ablative	cucurbitā	cucurbitīs
Vocative	cucurbita	cucurbitae

Derived terms

• cucurbitārius
• cucurbitātiō
• cucurbitīnus
• cucurbitula

 

Related terms

• cucurbita ventōsa
• cucurbitulāris

 

Descendants

• Albanian: kulte
• Aromanian: curcubetã
• Anglo-Norman: gourde
• English: gourd, courgette, zucchini
• Franco-Provençal: corda, gorda
• French: courge, gourde
• Friulian: çucje, čučhe
• Italian: cocuzza, cucurbita, zucca
• Occitan: cogorda, cocorda, gorda
• Portuguese: cucúrbita
• Romanian: curcubetă
• Romansch: zitga, zetga, zücha, zucca
• Sardinian: cocorfica, cocorvica, corcoriga, colcorija, curcufica, crocoriga, curcuvica, tzoca
• Sicilian: cucuzza
• Spanish: cucúrbita
• Venetian: suca, zhuca, zuca, cucucìa

References

• “cucurbita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cucurbita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cucurbita 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)
• cucurbita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Cucúrbita”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 188b–189a