culina

Deformed from coquīna (“kitchen”), from coquō (“to 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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈliː.na/, [kʊˈliː.na]

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culīna f (genitive culīnae); first declension

1. 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.

2. (by extension) food

First declension.

• (kitchen): coquīna

• culīnārius

• 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, 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