culina

Latin

Etymology

Deformed in an unexplained way from coquīna (“kitchen”), from coquō (“I cook”). According to another interpretation, resulting by cluster simplification of a pre-form *kokʷlīna, from suffixed *kokʷ-el-īna, from the same verbal root that gave coquō. In either case, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō (“to cook”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʊˈliː.na]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kuˈliː.na]

Noun

culīna f (genitive culīnae); first declension

kitchen
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 2:
  Qui inter haec nutriuntur, non magis sapere possunt quam bene olere qui in culina habitant.
  Whoever is nurtured by this will not be so much tasteful as fragrant as someone living in a kitchen.
(by extension) food

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	culīna	culīnae
genitive	culīnae	culīnārum
dative	culīnae	culīnīs
accusative	culīnam	culīnās
ablative	culīnā	culīnīs
vocative	culīna	culīnae

Synonyms

(kitchen): coquīna

Derived terms

culīnārius

Descendants

→ Old English: cyline, cylne
- Middle English: kilne, kylne, kulne, kylle, kelme
  - English: kiln
  - Scots: kill
- → Old Norse: kylna (possibly)
  - Old Swedish: kølna
    - Swedish: kölna

References

“culina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“culina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"culina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
culina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“culina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“culina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “culinary”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ “kiln”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 451}}

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “culinary”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

[2] “kiln”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

[3] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 451}}

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