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cuire

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See also: cuiré

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French cuire, from Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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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
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Cuire has the meaning of "making food undergo a chemical transformation process using heat or other means" whereas cuisiner means "to prepare/arrange food in order to make it proper for consumption and palatable".
Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning “to cook” one often uses faire cuire.

Conjugation
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  • Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Esperanto: kuiri
See also
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Further reading
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cuire

  1. inflection of cuirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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cuire m (genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

  1. band, troop
Declension
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Declension of cuire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cuire cuirí
vocative a chuire a chuirí
genitive cuire cuirí
dative cuire cuirí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cuire na cuirí
genitive an chuire na gcuirí
dative leis an gcuire
don chuire
leis na cuirí
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cuire

  1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cuire
radical lenition eclipsis
cuire chuire gcuire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Middle French

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Verb

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cuire

  1. Alternative form of cuyre

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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cuire

  1. (Guernsey) to cook

Old French

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Etymology

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From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

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cuire

  1. to cook

Conjugation

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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.

Descendants

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References

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

Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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cuire

  1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird

Mutation

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Mutation of cuire
radical lenition nasalization
cuire chuire cuire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.