different between cucurbita vs gourd

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cucurbita. Doublet of zucca and cocuzza.

Noun

cucurbita f (plural cucurbite)

1. gourd

Latin

Etymology

Possibly related to cucumis (“cucumber”), or to corbis (“basket”), corb?ta (“freight vessel”). Maybe from Sanskrit ?????? m (cirbha?a, “long melon, Cucumis melo subsp. melo var. conomon syn. Cucumis melo var. utilissimus”), ????? m (carbha?a, “idem”), ??????? f (cirbha??, “idem”), but the mediation is unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?kur.bi.ta/, [k??k?rb?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?kur.bi.ta/, [ku?kurbit??]

Noun

cucurbita f (genitive cucurbitae); first declension

1. gourd, cucurbit, including watermelon
2. dolt

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• cucurbita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cucurbita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cucurbita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cucurbita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) , “Cucúrbita”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ?ISBN, pages 188b–189a

English

Etymology

From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of cucurbit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???d/, /???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???d/, /????d/
• Homophone: gored

Noun

gourd (plural gourds)

1. Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
2. A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
3. The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
4. (obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.
5. (informal) loaded dice.
6. (slang) Head.

   I got so stoned last night. I was out of my gourd.

Derived terms

• gourdful
• saw gourds

Translations

See also

• basket
• bucket
• calabash
• calabaza
• cucurbitaceous

References

Further reading

• American Gourd Society

Anagrams

• groud

French

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin gurdus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?/

Adjective

gourd (feminine singular gourde, masculine plural gourds, feminine plural gourdes)

1. numb
2. maladroit, gauche

Further reading

• “gourd” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin gurdus.

Adjective

gourd m

1. (Jersey) numb