cocina

See also: cociná, cociña, and cocină

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna.

Noun

cocina f (plural cocines)

1. kitchen (room)
2. cooking, cookery

Related terms

• cocinar
• cocineru

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈtsi.na/

Noun

cocina (plural cocinas)

1. kitchen

Latin

Etymology

From earlier coquīna, ultimately from Classical coquō ("cook", verb).

Noun

cocīna f (genitive cocīnae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. kitchen
   • 4th c. CE, Testamentum Porcelli

     Magirus cocus dixit transi puer affer mihi de cocina cultrum ut hunc porcellum faciam cruentum.

     The cook Magirus said 'Go, boy, bring me a knife from the kitchen so that I can make this piglet all bloody'.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cocīna	cocīnae
Genitive	cocīnae	cocīnārum
Dative	cocīnae	cocīnīs
Accusative	cocīnam	cocīnās
Ablative	cocīnā	cocīnīs
Vocative	cocīna	cocīnae

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: cochina, cocina, coghina, cogina, cuchina
• Dalmatian:
  • cočaina
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cucina
  • Sicilian: cucina
    • → Maltese: kċina
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: cuséna
  • Friulian: cusine
  • Romansch: cuschina, cuschegna, cuschigna
  • Venetian: cusina, cuxina, coxina
    • → Albanian: kuzhinë
    • → Greek: κουζίνα (kouzína)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: кужина
      • Latin script: kužina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: cusena
  • Old French: cuisine
    • French: cuisine (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: tchuîsinne, tchuusène, cuisaenne
  • Walloon: coujhene
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan: cosina
  • Old Catalan: coïna
    • Catalan: cuina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cocina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cozinha
    • Galician: cociña, cuciña; cozinha
    • Portuguese: cozinha (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: cocina (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kėgin (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *kukinā (see there for further descendants)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŏquīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1169

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /koˈθina/ [koˈθi.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /koˈsina/ [koˈsi.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: co‧ci‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with English cuisine.

Noun

cocina f (plural cocinas)

1. kitchen
2. stove, cooker, range
3. cuisine

   Mi hermana como chef decidió especializarse en la cocina asiática.

   My sister as a chef decided to specialize in Asian cuisine.

4. (Dominican Republic, slang) back seats of a bus

Derived terms

• auxiliar de cocina
• batería de cocina
• cocina abierta
• cocina americana
• cocina de boca
• cocinilla (diminutive)
• cocinita (diminutive)
• escuyer de cocina
• galopín de cocina
• oído cocina
• paño de cocina
• pícaro de cocina
• robot de cocina
• sal de cocina

 

Related terms

• cocer (verb)
• cocinar (verb)
• cocinero

 

Descendants

• → Bikol Central: kusina
• → Cebuano: kusina
• → Guaraní: kosina
• → Hiligaynon: kusina
• → Limos Kalinga: kusina
• → Tagalog: kusina
• → Waray-Waray: kusina

See also

• comedor (“dining room”)
• salón (“lounge, living room”)

Etymology 2

Verb

cocina

1. inflection of cocinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cocina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014