Cuisine has the etymological history Borrowed from French 'cuisine' ('kitchen, cooking'), from Late Latin 'coquīna' ('kitchen'), from Latin 'coquere' ('to cook'). The ancestry passes through Middle French cuisine, Latin coquīna, and Latin coquere. In present use as a noun, it means "a style or manner of cooking, especially of a region", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include kitchen and culinary. The surrounding word family keeps the same base visible in kitchen and culinary, showing how the headword belongs to a larger cluster rather than standing alone.