Etymology

cuisine

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Today it means: A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin. Full definition →

French cuisine ← Late Latin cocīna
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  1. Late Latin · derived fromcocīna
  2. French · borrowed fromcuisine“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”
  3. English todaycuisine

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). Doublet of kitchen.

Words from the same roots

Late Latincocīna all →

kitchen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.