The story
- Latin · derived fromcucurbita
- French · borrowed fromcourgette
- English todaycourgette
Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.
Words from the same roots
Latincucurbita all →
gourdcucurbitcucurbitaceous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.