cuire

See also cuiré

French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /kɥiʁ/, X-SAMPA: /kHiR/
• Homophones: cuir, cuirs

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

Verb

cuire

1. (intransitive) to cook

   Le repas cuit.

   The meal is cooking

   Je fais cuire le repas.

   I'm cooking the meal. OR I cook the meal.

Usage notes

Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning "to cook" one often uses faire cuire.

Conjugation

• Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.

   Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		cuire			avoir cuit
gerund		en cuisant			en ayant cuit
present participle		cuisant
past participle		cuit
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	cuis	cuis	cuit	cuisons	cuisez	cuisent
	imperfect	cuisais	cuisais	cuisait	cuisions	cuisiez	cuisaient
	past historic1	cuisis	cuisis	cuisit	cuisîmes	cuisîtes	cuisirent
	future	cuirai	cuiras	cuira	cuirons	cuirez	cuiront
	conditional	cuirais	cuirais	cuirait	cuirions	cuiriez	cuiraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	cuise	cuises	cuise	cuisions	cuisiez	cuisent
	imperfect1	cuisisse	cuisisses	cuisît	cuisissions	cuisissiez	cuisissent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	cuis	—	cuisons	cuisez	—
1literary tenses

See also

• cuisine
• cuisson

Etymology 2

See cuirer.

Verb

cuire

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuirer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuirer
5. second-person singular imperative of cuirer

Anagrams

• curie

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cocō, cocere, from Latin coquō, coquere

Verb

cuire

1. to cook

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuire (“troop, host, company; muster”).

Noun

cuire m (genitive cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

1. band, troop

Declension

Declension of cuire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cuire cuirí Vocative a chuire a chuirí Genitive cuire cuirí Dative cuire cuirí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cuire na cuirí Genitive an chuire na gcuirí Dative leis an gcuire don chuire leis na cuirí

Derived terms

• banchuire (“band, group of women”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuire	chuire	gcuire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Middle French

Verb

cuire

1. Alternative form of cuyre.