cogombro

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (cucumber).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [koˈɣombɾʊ]
  • (file)

Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

  1. cucumber (fruit)
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 179:
      Toma hũu cogonbro et encheo de sangue, et vay aa orta du andã os vijte jnfantes, et da cõ el ẽnos peytos a Gonçaluo Gonçaluez, a aquel que vees que tẽ o açor na mão
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  2. cucumber plant

Derived terms

References

  • cogonbro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • cogombro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • cogombro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cogombro, from Latin cucumerem (cucumber).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈɡõ.bɾu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈɡõ.bɾo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuˈɡõ.bɾu/ [kuˈɣõ.bɾu]

Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

  1. (obsolete) cucumber (the fruit of the cucumber plant, used as a vegetable)
    Synonym: pepino

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈɡombɾo/ [koˈɣ̞õm.bɾo]
  • Rhymes: -ombɾo
  • Syllabification: co‧gom‧bro

Noun

cogombro m (plural cogombros)

  1. Alternative form of cohombro

Further reading

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