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Zucchini

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a green summer squash, also called courgette
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zucchino
Italian · 1800s
"a small squash"
a diminutive of zucca (pumpkin, gourd), a small summer squash
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zucchini
English · 1920s
"a green summer squash"
adopted directly for the green summer squash
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