cucurum
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κούκουρον (koúkouron), κούκκουρον (koúkkouron, “quiver”), from Hunnic *kukur, from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather flask”).
Noun edit
cucurum
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: kukur (or from Greek)
- → Romanian: cucură
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- cucurum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)