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) → Greek: κούκουρον (koúkouron) → Romanian: cucură → Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants) === References === "cucurum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)