cocina

See also: cociná, cociña, and cocină

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with Catalan cuina, Occitan cosina, Spanish cocina, French cuisine and English cuisine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈθina/
• IPA^(key): /koˈsina/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: co‧ci‧na
• Rhymes: -ina

Noun

cocina f

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

   La mia chermana, que ye cocinera, va decidir especializar-se en la cocina asiatica.

   My sister, who is a chef, decided to specialize in Asian cuisine.

Related terms

• cocinar (verb)
• cocinero

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈθina/ [koˈθi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: co‧ci‧na

Noun

cocina f (plural cocines)

1. kitchen (room)
2. cooking, cookery

Related terms

• cocinar
• cocineru

Further reading

• “cocina”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “cocina”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

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.

	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
• Italo-Romance:
  • Dalmatian: cociaina
  • Italian: cucina
  • Sicilian: cucina
    • → Maltese: kċina
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: cuséna
  • Friulian: cusine
  • Romansh: cuschina, cuschegna, cuschigna
  • Venetan: 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 (continental), cuisaenne
  • Walloon: coujhene
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan: cosina
  • Old Catalan: coïna
    • Catalan: cuina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cocina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cozinha, cozĩa
    • Galician: cociña, cocía (Galician-Asturian)
    • Portuguese: cozinha (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: cocina (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kögin (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, volume 2: C Q K, page 1169

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

• 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
• culinario

Descendants

• → Central Bikol: kusina
• → Cebuano: kusina
• → Hiligaynon: kusina
• → Limos Kalinga: kusina
• → Paraguayan Guarani: kosina
• → 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025