cuire

• IPA^(key): /kɥiʁ/

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• Homophones: cuir, cuirs

Inherited from Middle French cuire, from Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

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 has the meaning of "making food undergo a chemical transformation process using heat or other means" whereas cuisiner means "to prepare/arrange food in order to make it proper for consumption and palatable".
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.

• aller se faire cuire un œuf
• dur à cuire
• les carottes sont cuites
• terre cuite

• → Esperanto: kuiri

• cuisine
• cuisson
• cuisant

• “cuire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cuire

1. inflection of cuirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• 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 corresponding lemma form.

cuire

1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 46

cuire

1. Alternative form of cuyre

• tchuithe (Jersey)

From Old French cuire, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

cuire

1. (Guernsey) to cook

From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

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
    • → Esperanto: kuiri
• 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