cucumerarium

Latin

Etymology

From cucumis (“cucumber”) +‎ -ārium (“place for”).

Noun

cucumerārium n (genitive cucumerāriī or cucumerārī); second declension

1. cucumber patch or field

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cucumerārium	cucumerāria
Genitive	cucumerāriī cucumerārī1	cucumerāriōrum
Dative	cucumerāriō	cucumerāriīs
Accusative	cucumerārium	cucumerāria
Ablative	cucumerāriō	cucumerāriīs
Vocative	cucumerārium	cucumerāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• cucumis

References

• “cucumerarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cucumerarium 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)
• cucumerarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.