Where does “cucumer” come from?

cucumer (Middle English) comes from Old French cocombre, from Latin cucumis, from Sumerian 𒄾 — fat-tailed sheep.

cucumer (Middle English): cucumber plant or vegetable

Definitions

  1. cucumber plant or vegetable

Ancestry of “cucumer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchcocombrecucumber
2LatincucumisArmenian cucumber, snake melon, vegetable melon,...
3Sumerian𒄾fat-tailed sheep

Words derived from “cucumer”

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