culina

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuˈliː.na/, [kʊˈlʲiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kuˈli.na/, [kuˈliːnä]

Noun

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	culīna	culīnae
genitive	culīnae	culīnārum
dative	culīnae	culīnīs
accusative	culīnam	culīnās
ablative	culīnā	culīnīs
vocative	culīna	culīnae

Synonyms

• (kitchen): coquīna

Derived terms

• culīnārius

Descendants

• → Old English: cyline, cylne
  • Middle English: kilne, kylne, kulne, kylle, kelme
    • English: kiln
    • Scots: kill
  • → Old Norse: kylna (possibly)
    • Old Swedish: kølna
      • Swedish: kölna

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