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+ tomato is almost the same in many languages and it tastes delicious!

A courgette is quite a popular vegetable in Britain.

Also, zucchini sounds silly. Anyone know what it's called in Latin?

Everything; one never cared to know about the origin of the word Zucchini:

"Zucchini comes, not surprisingly, from Italian, the plural of zucchino, a diminutive of zucco, from Late Latin cucutia, from cucurbita, "an edible gourd" (cf. Sanskrit carbhatah, "cucumber"). Related to this is zucchetto, the skullcap worn by certain ecclesiastics in the Roman Catholic church (the colour varying according to the rank of the wearer); zucco, in other words, could also mean "head", as can gourd - in, for example, "use your gourd" - and squash in English, especially North American, slang. The word squash, incidentally, is a Native American term, from Narraganset askutasquash, meaning, interestingly, "a green vegetable eaten green", i.e. young. The other squash, the kind played with racquets and rubber balls, is unrelated, deriving from Old French esquasser, from Latin exquassare, "to shatter, crush, or pulp", presumably on the basis of that generally being one's intention vis-à-vis one's opponent when playing that game; this is obviously also the origin of the name of the drink squash. Gourd, in English, is reserved for the inedible cucurbitaceae, used now principally when dried as decoration but in earlier times also as drinking vessels. The word was borrowed from the French gourde, earlier coorde, and derives ultimately from Latin cucurbita. Courgette, the name by which they are known in France and also in Britain, is the diminutive of courge, an alternative form of gourde, and derives therefore also from cucurbita. Courge and gourde are both used colloquially in French to refer to the intellectually challenged, possibly, but not necessarily, through confusion with the French adjective gourd(e), "dull, stupid, heavy", from Vulgar Latin gurdus, "heavy, stupid" (it is in the sense of "heavy", presumably, that gourde came to be the name of the standard monetary unit of that much troubled country Haiti). I say not necessarily because even in classical Latin cucurbita was used also in the sense of a "dolt, pumpkin-head", and in Italian too we find the term zuccone used of the dull or dim-witted, particularly those "with learning difficulties". The Spanish calabaza, "pumpkin or gourd" (borrowed into English as calabash), is also used of the intellectually retrograde, as for example in the waggish greeting ¿Qué pasa, calabaza?, "What's happening, pumpkin-head?", which readers are urged to try out when next in the barrios of Los Angeles. In Spain we find the expression más soso que la calabaza, "thicker than a pumpkin", used in particular of the socially unrefined. The diminutive, calabacín, is used of the smaller varieties of marrows, e.g. the courgette. The etymology of the Spanish word - used in fact in all the languages of the Iberian peninsula - is unclear, but one possibility is that it is oriental in origin, related to Persian kharbuza, "watermelon", which looks itself suspiciously like a cognate of cucurbita."

pretentious dick ranting about zucchinis.. bashed