cucurbita

Meaning

1. (Classical-Latin, Late-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine) gourd, calabash (varieties of Lagenaria siceraria)
2. (Classical-Latin, Late-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine) gourd, calabash (varieties of Lagenaria siceraria)
3. (declension-1, derogatory, feminine) dolt
4. (Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine) bryony (with epithets meaning "wild": silvātica, silvestris, errātica)
5. (Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine) colocynth (with epithets meaning "wild": silvātica, silvestris, agrestis)
6. (New-Latin, declension-1, feminine) pumpkin, squash (gourds of the botanical genus Cucurbita native to the New World)

Concepts

gourd

pumpkin

squash

fool

marrow

suction cup

Synonyms

ventosa

Translations

calabaza

zucca

calebasse

cabaça

Kürbis

sukabağı

kalebas

kalabasfles

Kalebasse

courge

pompoen

kalabas

potiron

Pronounced as (IPA)

[kʊˈkʊr.bɪ.ta]

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.