cogombro

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈɣombɾʊ]

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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

• cogombro do demo

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/

• (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

• “cogombro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014