Noun: cucurbita
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | cucurbita |
| Plural | cucurbitae |
Genitive
| Singular | cucurbitae |
| Plural | cucurbitārum |
Dative
| Singular | cucurbitae |
| Plural | cucurbitīs |
Accusative
| Singular | cucurbitam |
| Plural | cucurbitās |
Ablative
| Singular | cucurbitā |
| Plural | cucurbitīs |
Vocative
| Singular | cucurbita |
| Plural | cucurbitae |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cucurbita
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly a loanword 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. Compare Old English hwerhwette. See: Old English Nouns '
hwerhwette'.
Verbs referencing "cucurbita"
English Nouns
courgette, Dutch Nouns
courgette, Italian Nouns
zucca, French Nouns
courge, English Nouns
gourd, French Nouns
gourde, Middle English Nouns
gourde, English Nouns
cucurbit, Danish Nouns
græskar, Italian Nouns
cucurbita, Italian Nouns
cocuzza, Romanian Nouns
curcubetă, Latvian Nouns
ķirbis, Old English Nouns
hwerhwette, Icelandic Nouns
kúrbítur, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
gresskar.
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