cuisine

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Vulgar Latin *cocina, from Latin coquina. Doublet of kitchen.

• IPA^(key): /kwɪˈziːn/

cuisine (countable and uncountable, plural cuisines)

1. (countable, uncountable) A characteristic style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.

   French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.

   The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.

2. (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

• (characteristic style of preparing food): culinary art, kitchen

• haute cuisine
• nouvelle cuisine

• curry

• gastronomy

From Old French cuisine, from Vulgar Latin *cocīna, from Latin coquīna, whence also Catalan cuina, Galician cociña, Italian cucina, Portuguese cozinha, Spanish cocina, and ultimately English kitchen, Dutch keuken and German Küche.

• IPA^(key): /kɥi.zin/

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cuisine f (plural cuisines)

1. kitchen

   Brian est dans la cuisine

   Brian is in the kitchen.

2. cuisine

   J’aime la cuisine française.

   I like French cooking.

• cuir
• cuisson
• cuit

• Haitian Creole: lakizin
• → English: cuisine
• → Malagasy: lakozy

cuisine

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuisiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuisiner
5. second-person singular imperative of cuisiner

• “cuisine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).