noun · femininefirst declension
culīna
culīna f (genitive culīnae)
Classical[kʊˈliː.na]Ecclesiastical[kuˈliː.na]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- kitchen
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.c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 2 - broadlyfood
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
pars domūs, in quā cibus coquitur; in culīnā focus ārdet.culīna -ae f — in Mille Verba, Domus et Familia
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | culīna | culīnae |
| genitive | culīnae | culīnārum |
| dative | culīnae | culīnīs |
| accusative | culīnam | culīnās |
| ablative | culīnā | culīnīs |
| vocative | culīna | culīnae |
cŭlīna (old orthogr. cŏlīna, acc. to Non. p. 55, 18 sq.), ae, f. Sanscr. çar, çri, to cook, mix,
I. a kitchen.
I. Prop., Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 1; id. Truc. 2, 7, 53; Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2; Cic. Fam. 15, 18, 1; Sen. Ep. 114, 26; Petr. 2; Hor. S. 1, 5, 73; 2, 5, 80; cf. of a portable kitchen, Sen. Ep. 78, 23; Juv. 3, 250.—
II. Transf.
A. Culina vocatur locus, in quo epulae in funere comburuntur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 65, 12.—
B. Meton., food, fare, victuals:
Murenā praebente domum, Capitone culinam, Hor. S. 1, 5, 38; so Juv. 5, 162; 14, 14.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
culīna ae, f
2 CAR-, a kitchen: vetus, H.— A table, food: praebens culinam, H.: nidor culinae, Iu.: magna, splendid, Iu.
Origins
Altered in an unexplained way from coquīna (“kitchen”), from coquō (“to cook”). Ernout and Meillet suggest contamination from cūlus (“arse”), as latrines, used for expelling waste from the anus, were often situated near kitchens. 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. In either case, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō (“to cook”).
Descendants
- Englishkilnfrom Old English cyline
- Scotskillfrom Old English cyline
- Swedishkölnafrom Old English cyline