culina Latin · revision 8445

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kʊˈliː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kuˈliː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''culīna''' ''f'' (genitive culīnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is perhaps connected with [[coquō]] “to cook” and [[coquīna]] “kitchen”, altered in an unexplained way.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Ernout and Meillet suggest contamination by [[cūlus]] “arse”, since latrines were often near kitchens, according to Wiktionary, and another view derives it from ⟨*kokʷlīna⟩ by simplification of the cluster.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of a kitchen.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a kitchen, as in Plautus, and in Varro the food provided, fare.^(OLD 2012) It also meant a place for burnt offerings at funerals.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a kitchen, victuals.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a saltern.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for a kitchen, perhaps a kiln, and perhaps a tunnel.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed into Old English as ''cyln'', whence [[en|kiln]], and its adjective ''culīnārius'' gave [[en|culinary]] in the 1630s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a kitchen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of fare.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1630s – English ''culinary'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|kitchen]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Fare, board.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A place for funeral offerings.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A saltern; a [[m|en|kiln]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[culīnārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[coquīna]]

+ * [[coquō]]

+ * [[en|kiln]]

+ * [[en|culinary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}