cuire

• IPA^(key): /kɥiʁ/

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• Homophones: cuir, cuirs

From Middle French cuire, cuyre, from Old French cuire, from Vulgar Latin *cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

cuire

1. (intransitive) to cook

   Le repas cuit. ― The meal is cooking.

   Je fais cuire le repas. ― I'm cooking the meal. / I cook the meal.

Cuire is also a transitive verb but instead of the transitive verb meaning “to cook” one often uses faire cuire.

• Cuire is often conjugated as cuirent in the third-person plural of the past historic.

• → Esperanto: kuiri

• cuisine
• cuisson

• “cuire” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

See the etymology of the main entry.

cuire

1. first-person singular present indicative of cuirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cuirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cuirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cuirer
5. second-person singular imperative of cuirer

• curie

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪɾʲə/

From Old Irish cuire (“troop, host, company; muster”).

cuire m (genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

1. band, troop

• banchuire (“band, group of women”)

See the etymology of the main entry.

cuire

1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

• "cuire" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

cuire

1. Alternative form of cuyre

• tchuithe (Jersey)

From Old French cuire, from Vulgar Latin *cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō.

cuire

1. (Guernsey) to cook

From Vulgar Latin *cocere, from Latin coquere, present active infinitive of coquō, from Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).

cuire

1. to cook

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: cuyre, cuire
  • French: cuire
• Norman: cuire (Guernsey), tchuithe (Jersey)
• Walloon: cure

• “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 152

• cuirthe

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurʲe/

cuire

1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird