cucurbita
See also: Cucurbita
Italian
Etymology
Noun
cucurbita f (plural cucurbite)
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
- gourd, cucurbit, including watermelon
- 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
Related terms
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), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 188b–189a
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