cumba

Latin

Alternative forms

comba, cumma, comma, cuma, coma, cumbus

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkum.ba/, [ˈkʊm.ba]

Noun

cumba f (genitive cumbae); first declension[1][2]

(Middle Latin) valley

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cumba	cumbae
Genitive	cumbae	cumbārum
Dative	cumbae	cumbīs
Accusative	cumbam	cumbās
Ablative	cumbā	cumbīs
Vocative	cumba	cumbae

Descendants

Asturian: comba
Old French: cumbe
- Middle French: combe
  - French: combe
Italian: comba
Piedmontese comba
Portuguese: comba
Old Occitan: comba
- Catalan: coma
- Occidental: comba

References

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “cumba”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 287
cumba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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