cucurbita.
gourd (plant/fruit) (Cucurbitaceae); dolt/pumpkin-head; cup, cupping-glass;
Meaning & usage
gourd, calabash (varieties of Lagenaria siceraria) round or oval or similar varieties allowed to ripen, by which time they are inedible because they harden, and used as vessels or for making instruments
gourd, calabash (varieties of Lagenaria siceraria) long, snake- or cucumber-like varieties eaten unripe, similar to the modern Lagenaria siceraria var. longissima still grown in the south of Italy (in widespread terms, resembling zucchini or courgettes but with the texture of potato)
dolt
bryony (with epithets meaning "wild": silvātica, silvestris, errātica)
colocynth (with epithets meaning "wild": silvātica, silvestris, agrestis, and with Aegyptia, Alexandrīna)
squash, pumpkin (gourds of the botanical genus Cucurbita native to the New World)
Where this word comes from
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.
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