coctura

Latin

Etymology

From coquō +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kokˈtuː.ra/, [kɔkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kokˈtu.ra/, [kokˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

coctūra f (genitive coctūrae); first declension

1. cooking, heating, roasting

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coctūra	coctūrae
Genitive	coctūrae	coctūrārum
Dative	coctūrae	coctūrīs
Accusative	coctūram	coctūrās
Ablative	coctūrā	coctūrīs
Vocative	coctūra	coctūrae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cupturã
  • Romanian: coptură
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cottura
  • Sicilian: cuttura
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: cottura
• Western Romance:
  • Old French: quiture
    • → English: quittor
  • Spanish: cochura
  • Venetian: cotura

References

• “coctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coctura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• coctura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.