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cuire

cuire

See also: cuiré

French

Verb

cuire

  1. (intransitive) to cook
    Le repas cuit.‎
    The meal is cooking.
    Je fais cuire le repas.‎
    I'm cooking the meal. / I cook the meal.
Usage notes

Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning “to cook” one often uses faire cuire.

Conjugation
  • Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.

See also

Etymology 2

See cuirer.

Verb

cuire

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

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuire ‎(“troop, host, company; muster”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪɾʲə/

Noun

cuire m ‎(genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

  1. band, troop

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuire chuire gcuire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle French

Verb

cuire

  1. Alternative form of cuyre

Norman

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cocō, from Latin coquō

Verb

cuire

  1. (Guernsey) to cook

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ‎(“to cook, become ripe”).

Verb

cuire

  1. to cook

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive cuire avoir cuit
gerund en cuisant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle cuisant
past participle cuit
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present cuis, cui cuis cuist, cuit cuisons, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez cuisent, cuient
imperfect cuisoie, cuiseie cuisoies, cuiseies cuisoit, cuiseit cuisiiens, cuisiens cuisiiez, cuisiez cuisoient, cuiseient
preterite cuis cuisis cuist cuisimes cuisistes cuistrent
future cuirai cuiras cuira cuirons cuiroiz, cuireiz, cuirez cuiront
conditional cuiroie, cuireie cuiroies, cuireies cuiroit, cuireit cuiriiens, cuiriens cuiriiez, cuiriez cuiroient, cuireient
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present cuise, cuie cuises, cuies cuise, cuie cuisiens, cuisons, cuiiens, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez cuisent, cuient
imperfect cuisisse cuisisses cuisist cuisissons, cuisissiens cuisissoiz, cuisissez, cuisissiez cuisissent
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— cuis, cui — cuisons, cuions cuisiez, cuiiez —

Descendants

References

  • “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-09838-6, page 152

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • cuirthe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkurʲe/

Verb

cuire

  1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cuire chuire cuire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ‎(“to cook, become ripe”).

Pronunciation

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