coquino

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [kɔˈkʷiː.noː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈkʷiː.no]^[1]

Forms

coquīnō (present infinitive coquīnāre, perfect active coquīnāvī, supine coquīnātum); first conjugation^[1] Also spelled cocīnō.^[2]

Etymology

It is from coquīnus “of a cook” with -ō, from the family of coquō “to cook”.^[1][3][4] De Vaan traces ⟨coquō⟩ to Proto-Italic *kʷekʷe/o- (“to cook”), Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-e/o- (“to cook”), cognate with Sanskrit पचति (pácati, “cooks”) and Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō, “to cook”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Plautus, perhaps its only author.^[6][2] Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^[7]

Semantic evolution

It meant to do a cook's work, to cook, as in Plautus' Aululāria, and transitively to prepare as a dish, as in his Pseudolus.^[2][3]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^[6][2]

Meanings

Verb

1. To cook, act as a cook.^[3][2]

Word family

• coquinātōrius,
• coquīnus

Related words

• coquō
• coquus
• coquīna
• culīna

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
3. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de