Where does “arrière-cuisine” come from?
arrière-cuisine (French) comes from French cuisine, from Old French cuisine, from Latin cocīna, from Latin coquīna, from Latin coquīnus, from Latin coquus, from Latin coquō, from English Cook.
arrière-cuisine (French): back kitchen; scullery
Definitions
- back kitchen; scullery
Ancestry of “arrière-cuisine”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cuisine | kitchen; cuisine; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Old French | cuisine | — |
| 3 | Latin | cocīna | kitchen |
| 4 | Latin | coquīna | cooking; art of cookery |
| 5 | Latin | coquīnus | cook's |
| 6 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 7 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 8 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 9 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 10 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 11 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 13 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |