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]

Noun

cucumis m (genitive cucumeris); third declension

  1. cucumber
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.
Case Singular Plural
Nominative cucumis cucumerēs
Genitive cucumeris cucumerum
Dative cucumerī cucumeribus
Accusative cucumerem cucumerēs
Ablative cucumere cucumeribus
Vocative cucumis cucumerēs
 Third declension i-stem.
Case Singular Plural
Nominative cucumis cucumēs
Genitive cucumis cucumium
Dative cucumī cucumibus
Accusative cucumem cucumēs
Ablative cucume cucumibus
Vocative cucumis cucumēs
Derived terms
Descendants

References

    Etymology 2

    Inflected form of cucuma (“kettle”).

    Pronunciation
    • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ku.miːs/, [ˈkʊ.kʊ.miːs]

    Noun

    cucumīs

    1. dative plural of cucuma
    2. ablative plural of cucuma

    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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