cucurum

Latin

Alternative forms

cucurus, cucura, coccura

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κούκουρον (koúkouron), κούκκουρον (koúkkouron, “quiver”), from Hunnic *kukur, from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (“leather flask”).

Noun

cucurum

(Medieval Latin) quiver

Descendants

→ Albanian: kukur (or from Greek)
- → Romanian: cucură
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants)

References

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)

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