Where does “cucina” come from?
cucina (Italian) comes from Latin cocīna, from Latin coquīna, from Latin coquīnus, from Latin coquus, from Latin coquō, from English Cook, from German kochen, from Middle High German kochen.
cucina (Italian): kitchen; cooking, cookery, cuisine, food;...
Definitions
- kitchen; cooking, cookery, cuisine, food;...
Ancestry of “cucina”, step by step
cucina traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin cocīna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | cocīna | kitchen |
| 2 | Latin | coquīna | cooking; art of cookery |
| 3 | Latin | coquīnus | cook's |
| 4 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 5 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 6 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 7 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 8 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 9 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 11 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |
via Latvian Ina
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latvian | Ina | — |
| 2 | Latvian | Inese | Inez |
| 3 | Spanish | Inés | the letter I in the Spanish spelling alphabet |
| 4 | French | Agnès | — |
| 5 | Latin | Agnes | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Ἁγνή | pure, chaste |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἁγνός | pure, chaste; holy, sacred; purifying |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ἁγνεία | purity, chastity; purification, cleansing |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ᾰ̔γνός | — |