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coquina

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [kɔˈkʷiː.na][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈkʷiː.na][1]

Forms

coquīna f (genitive coquīnae); first declension[1]

Etymology

It is from coquus “cook” with the suffix -īna, a doublet of popīna “cookshop”.[2][1] Through coquō “to cook” it goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook”).[1] Lewis and Short and the TLL treat it under the adjective coquīnus.[3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD and the TLL cite it from Apuleius, of the art of cookery.[2][4] Köbler dates Apuleius c. 125–175 AD.[5]

Semantic evolution

It meant the art of cookery, as in Apuleius, where cookery and perfumery are imitators of the true arts.[2][4] In Arnobius and Palladius it meant a kitchen, and Isidore uses it of cookery.[6]

Medieval Latin used it for a kitchen and for cooked food.[7] British Medieval Latin used it of the kitchen as a building or a household department, monastic or royal.[8] A Vulgar Latin *cocīna was borrowed into Germanic as *kokina, whence Old English cycene and English kitchen.[9][5]

Timeline

  • c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of cookery.[2][4][5]
  • c. 400 AD – Palladius uses it of a kitchen.[6]
  • c. 1200 – English kitchen is recorded, from Old English cycene.[9]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The art of cookery.[2]
  2. A kitchen.[6]
  3. (Medieval Latin) Cooked food.[7]

Word family

  • coquīnāris
  • coquīnārius

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  7. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  8. ^ Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
  9. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com