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Where does “culinary” come from?

Culinary derives from French culinaire, from Latin culinarius, an adjective formed with the suffix -arius from coquina, meaning kitchen, itself related to Latin coquus, cook.

culinary (English): Relating to the practice of cookery or the...

Definitions

  1. Relating to the practice of cookery or the...

Ancestry of “culinary”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchculinaireculinary
2Latinculīnārius—
3Latinculīna—
4Latincoquīna—
5Latincoquīnus—
6LatincoquusA cook; person who makes food
7Latincoquō—
8EnglishCook—
9Germankochento cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred...
10Middle High Germankochento cook
11Old High Germankohhōnto cook
12Proto-Germanickukōnąto cook
13Latincoqueresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
14Proto-Italickʷekʷōto cook
15Proto-Indo-Europeanpékʷetito be cooking; to ripen
16Proto-Indo-Europeanpekʷ-to cook; to ripen
17Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃-ép-kʷ-—

Words derived from “culinary”

  • culinarily
  • culinarian
  • nonculinary
  • medicoculinary
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