cuire

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See also: cuiré

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French cuire, from Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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cuire

  1. (intransitive) to cook
    Le repas cuit.The meal is cooking.
    Je fais cuire le repas.I'm cooking the meal. / I cook the meal.
Usage notes
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Cuire has the meaning of "making food undergo a chemical transformation process using heat or other means" whereas cuisiner means "to prepare/arrange food in order to make it proper for consumption and palatable".
Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning “to cook” one often uses faire cuire.

Conjugation
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  • Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Esperanto: kuiri
See also
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Further reading
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cuire

  1. inflection of cuirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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cuire m (genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

  1. band, troop
Declension
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cuire

  1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

Mutation

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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.

Further reading

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Middle French

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Verb

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cuire

  1. Alternative form of cuyre

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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cuire

  1. (Guernsey) to cook

Old French

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Etymology

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From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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cuire

  1. to cook

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

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References

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  • “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 152

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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cuire

  1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cuire chuire cuire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.