cook

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To prepare food by heating it.

   These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes.

2. 2
   verb

   To prepare a meal.

   My husband doesn't cook, so I make dinner every night.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who prepares food.

   I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

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Simplified etymology

Cook comes from Old English coc, whose root is Latin coquus, “cook.” In Old English it referred to a male household officer responsible for preparing food or to a tradesman who prepared and sold food; women who prepared dinner began to be called cooks in the mid-16th century.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook English cook From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), Germ…

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