Where does “ricotta” come from?
Ricotta derives from Italian ricotta, from Latin recoctus meaning "recooked," from recoquere "to cook again," composed of the prefix re- and coquo "to cook."
ricotta (English): A soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling...
Definitions
- A soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling...
Ancestry of “ricotta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | ricotta | feminine singular of ricotto; ricotta |
| 2 | Latin | recoctus | recooked; refined |
| 3 | Latin | recoquo | I recook etc |
| 4 | Latin | coquō | — |
| 5 | English | Cook | — |
| 6 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 7 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 8 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kukaz | cook |
| 11 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 12 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 13 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |