English → Latin
“cook” in Latin
coquusA cook; person who makes food.archĭmăgīrusa chief cookculīnāriuskitchen; culinaryScrībōniusGaius Scribonius Curio, a Roman statesman and orator; Scribonius Largus, a Roman physicianpopīnabar, bistro, cookshop, restaurant, eating house (place where food and drink was prepared and sold)pŏpīnārĭusa cookcoquōto cook; prepare food; to ripen; to roast, drymītigōto make soft, ripe, or tender; to mitigate, make mild, tame, pacifycibusfood, fodder; nourishment, sustenance; mealcoquīnōto cook (professionally)
The English word cook itself goes back to Latin cocus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cook
coquus: feminine, coqua; coquula (diminutive): the head cook in the house of a wealthy Roman, archimagirus (ἀρχιμάγειρος, Juv., 9, 109): to be one’s own cοοκ, sibi manu sua parare cibum: a cook’s boy, *puer culinarius; plur., culinarii (Scribonius, Larg., 230): hunger is the best cook, cibi condimentum fames est (Cic., De Fin., 2, 28, 90): malum panem tenerum tibi et siligineum fames reddet (Sen., Ep., 123, 2): a cook’s shop, popina: one who keeps a cook’s shop, popinarius (late). A cook’s knife, culter coquinaris (Varr.).
cook v.
coquere (to prepare food by heat): mitigare: igne mollire (to make soft by heat): to cook anything in anything (e.g., in milk, oil, etc.), coquere in or ex aliqua re (e.g., in lacte; ex oleo, etc.); incoquere aliqua re or cum aliqua re (e.g., aqua ferventi, cum aqua): to cook anything well, percoquere: to cook some food, cibum or cibaria coquere: cibum parare or comparare (general term for prepare): to cook one’s own meal or dinner, sibi manu sua parare cibum: cooked, coctus; igne mollitus.
cook v.
INTR., coquinare (Plaut.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cook?
- The usual Latin words for “cook” are coquus, archĭmăgīrus, culīnārius; also Scrībōnius, popīna, pŏpīnārĭus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.