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Latin
Etymology
Deformed 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.
Pronunciation
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.
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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