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Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (“cucumber”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cogombro m (plural cogombros)
- 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- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- cucumber plant
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cogonbro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cogombro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cogombro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cogombro, from Latin cucumerem (“cucumber”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cogombro m (plural cogombros)
- (obsolete) cucumber (the fruit of the cucumber plant, used as a vegetable)
- Synonym: pepino
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈɡombɾo/
- Rhymes: -ombɾo
- Syllabification: co‧gom‧bro
Noun
cogombro m (plural cogombros)
- Alternative form of cohombro
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