cocer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cozer (“to cook”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cocēre, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō. Cognate with Portuguese cozer and Spanish cocer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈθeɾ], (western) [koˈseɾ]

Verb

1. to boil, stew
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:

     pisa moy ben todo con exulla uedra de porco et faz ende hũa masa et coze todo con uyno, meyxeo ameude ataa que se coza ben

     pound it carefully with old pork lard and make a dough with it and boil everything in wine, stir it frequently till it is well cooked

   Synonym: ferver

2. to cook
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 89:

     Et estes omẽs yam comendo as carnes ja et os peyxes et pescados que achauam et matauã elles os que podiam prender; pero nõ os coziã que nõ [sabiam] ajnda amaneyra delo, mays enxugauam aquelas carnes et peyxes ao sol

     And these persons were eating the meats and seafood and fish that they can find and kill and catch; but they did not cook them, because they still did not know the way, but they dried these meats and seafood in the sun

   Synonym: cociñar

3. to bake

   Maruxiña da Forneira / se é que coces faime un bolo / se mo fas faimo de trigo / que o centeo non cho como (traditional song)

   Little Mary of the Baker / if you bake make a loaf for me / and if you make it, make it wheat / because I don't eat rye

   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 206:

     fezo cozer pera elles pã çençeno

     She ordered to bake rye bread for them

   Synonym: enfornar

4. to fire
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 445:

     cinco mil ladrillos ben cozidos e de boo barro

     five thousand bricks, correctly fired and made of good clay

   Synonym: enfornar

5. (flax processing) to ret
6. (wine processing) to ferment

   Synonym: fermentar

7. to digest

   Synonym: dixerir

8. first-person singular personal infinitive of cocer
9. third-person singular personal infinitive of cocer

Related terms

• cociña
• cociñeiro
• coito

Derived terms

• cocido
• precocer

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• “coz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “cocer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• cocur

Etymology

From West Germanic *kokar-, whence also Old Frisian koker, Old Saxon kokar (Dutch koker), Old High German kohhār (German Köcher). The origin of the West Germanic word is unknown, but note that a similar word can be found in Turkic and Mongolic languages: see Proto-Mongolic *kökexür for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ker/

Noun

cocer m

1. a quiver for arrows
2. a case, container
3. a sheath

Descendants

• Middle English: coker, cuker, cokir, cocur, cokre, kokur, quequer, koker
  • English: cocker, cogger

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *cocēre, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti, from *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Some conjugated forms of the verb were reformed through analogy with the infinitive; in Old Spanish, the forms cueza and cuezo were cuega and cuego, respectively, coció was coxo, and the past participle was cocho instead of cocido. Cognate with English cook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /koˈθeɾ/ [koˈθeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /koˈseɾ/ [koˈseɾ]
• Homophone: coser (non-Castilian dialects)

Verb

1. to boil
2. to cook (only used in situations where the food being prepared is submitted to fire; such as through the processes of boiling, simmering or steaming anything; or baking bread slowly in an oven)

   cocer a fuego lento ― simmer

3. (reflexive, cocerse) to brew

   Algo se está cociendo

   Something is brewing

4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to chafe (get sore)

   Synonyms: escocerse, escaldarse

Derived terms

• en todas partes cuecen habas
• precocer

Related terms

• cocción
• cocedero
• cocimiento
• cocina
• cocinar
• escocer