"to cook" in seven languages
Meaningto cook
Spanish
/koθiˈnaɾ/
inherited
Built on cocina 'kitchen'; guisar is also used.
French
/kɥizine/
inherited
Built on cuisine; faire la cuisine is just as common. Cuire is to cook a particular food.
Italian
/kutʃiˈnare/
inherited
Built on cucina; cuocere is to cook a particular food.
Portuguese
/koziˈɲah/
inherited
Romanian
/gəˈti/
other source · Old Church Slavonic gotoviti 'to make ready'
Catalan
/kujˈna/
inherited
English
/kʊk/
other source · Old English cōc 'a cook', an early borrowing of Latin COCUS
The Latin ancestor
COCĪNAM (for COQUĪNAM)‘kitchen (from COQUERE 'to cook')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
All three made 'to cook' out of the word for kitchen, COCĪNA. English kitchen comes from the same word, but cook from its sibling COCUS 'a cook'.
English relatives: kitchen, cuisine, concoct, precocious
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In a sentence
- esMi padre cocina muy bien.
- frMon père cuisine très bien.
- itMio padre cucina benissimo.
- ptMeu pai cozinha muito bem.
- roTata gătește foarte bine.
- caEl meu pare cuina molt bé.
- enMy father cooks very well.