cuocere
Italian
Alternative forms
- còce (Tuscan and central dialects)[1]
Etymology
From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɔ.t͡ʃe.re/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔtʃere
- Hyphenation: cuò‧ce‧re
Verb
cuòcere (first-person singular present cuòcio, first-person singular past historic còssi, past participle còtto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive, also figurative) to cook, to bake
- (intransitive, also figurative) to cook, to bake [auxiliary essere]
Conjugation
Conjugation of cuòcere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
3Now rare.
Related terms
- biscuocere
- cucina (“kitchen; cooking, cookery, food”)
- cucinare
- cuocersi (“kitchen; to become baked”)
- cuocitore, cuocitrice
- cuoco, cuoca (“cook, chef”)
- scuocere (“to overcook, overdo”)
References
- ^ AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 952: “cuocere la carne” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it