cucuruz.
maize, corn
Meaning & usage
maize, corn
corncob
pine cone or cone of another conifer
Where this word comes from
Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650). From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like nature of the maize cob. The Latin word itself may be a loan from Illyrian. Older theories posited a development from a base coc – cf. buburuză, from bob "grain, bean" – with a primary meaning of "pine cone". From Romanian and Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, the word spread into other languages, e.g. Hungarian kukorica, Russian кукуруза, Ottoman Turkish قوقوروز, &c.
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