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; compare Arabic كُوسَا (kūsā), Ancient Greek σίκυος, σικυός, σικυὸς, σίκυς (síkuos, sikuós, sikuòs, síkus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.mis/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.mɪs]
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.
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Third declension i-stem.
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Derived terms
- cucumerāceus
- cucumerārium
- cucumeriformis, cucumiformis
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Inflected form of cucuma (“kettle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.miːs/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.miːs]
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, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
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