courgette B1 Topic:Food & Drink US /kʊɚˈʒɛt/ UK /kʊəˈʒɛt/ See IPA manual Freq #103024 Meanings 1 noun A long green vegetable shaped like a small cucumber, eaten cooked. I fried some sliced courgette with garlic and olive oil. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a long green vegetable... zucchini Word family Forms courgettes Derived forms courgetti Related forms cucumbergherkinmarrowpicklesquashzucchini Etymology AI details Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita. courgette French cucurbita Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # courgette **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /kʊɚˈʒɛt/ **IPA (UK):** /kʊəˈʒɛt/ **Frequency rank:** 103024 ## Meanings 1. A long green vegetable shaped like a small cucumber, eaten cooked. ## Examples - I fried some sliced courgette with garlic and olive oil. ## Synonyms - zucchini ## Derived Forms - courgetti ## Related Forms - cucumber - gherkin - marrow - pickle - squash - zucchini ## Roots and Affixes - Root: courgette - Root: cucurbita ## Etymology Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita. ## AI Etymology courgette is an unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita. The historical chain includes French courgette, Latin cucurbita. The current sense is A long green vegetable shaped like a small cucumber, eaten cooked. English relatives and later formations include courgetti, cucumber, gherkin. ## Topics - Food & Drink markdown