What is the Latin word for cookery?

The usual Latin words for “cookery” are coctūra, līber. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“cookery” in Latin

coctūracooking, heating, roasting līberfree, independent, unrestricted, unchecked, unrestrained, licentious; freeman, freewoman; open (not decided or settled)

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

cookery

res coquinaria: coctura (the manner in which one cooks). A cookery-book, liber, qui observationes coquendi continet (Vid: Plin., 18, 25): *liber, qui est de re coquinaria, or de opsoniis et condimentis: [ ☞ Liber de re coquinaria, would not be Latin.] (as title), de re coquinaria or de opsoniis et condimentis. Vid: also “the art of cookery,” in COOKING.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for cookery?: The usual Latin words for “cookery” are coctūra, līber. 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.