Noun: cucuruz
Long Infinitive of Verb:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | cucuruz |
| Sg. Def. | cucuruzul |
| Pl. Indef. | cucuruzi |
| Pl. Def. | cucuruzii |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | cucuruz |
| Sg. Def. | cucuruzului |
| Pl. Indef. | cucuruzi |
| Pl. Def. | cucuruzilor |
Vocative
| Singular | cucuruzule |
| Plural | cucuruzilor |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cucuruz
heterocromozom,
miliamper,
următor,
miliardar,
meseriaș,
paleolog,
sforar,
ichilic,
brahicefal,
iciolan,
urloier,
nevointaș,
serdar,
serval,
setter,
sectar,
seimen,
senzor,
sensal,
radiooperator, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Attested 1575 as Cucurezi, the name of a village (today Cucuruzu, Giurgiu County), as Cucuruz from 1621. As maize (cucurudz, triticum turcicum) in Dictionarium Valachico-Latinum (Caransebeș, c. 1650).
2. From Latin cucullus "hood, doll, cocoon" via a Balkan word – Aromanian cucul, Albanian kukull – with rhotacism l > r and suffix -uz (originally -ëz). The reference is to the wrapped, cocoon-like nature of the maize cob.
3. The Latin word itself may be a loan from Illyrian.
4. Older theories posited a development from a base coc – cf. buburuză, from bob "grain, bean" – with a primary meaning of "pine cone".
5. From Romanian and Serbo-Croatian kukuruz, the word spread into other languages, e.g. Hungarian kukorica, Russian кукуруза, Ottoman Turkish قوقوروز, &c. See: Hungarian Nouns '
kukorica', Russian Nouns '
кукуруза'.
Verbs referencing "cucuruz"
Belarusan Nouns
кукуруза, Russian Nouns
кукуруза, Hungarian Nouns
kukorica, Czech Nouns
kukuřice, Polish Nouns
kukurydza, German Nouns
Kukuruz, Slovak Nouns
kukurica, Ukrainian Nouns
кукурудза.
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