decoct

(Engels)

  1. To make an infusion.
  2. To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
  3. (figuratively) To heat as if by boiling.
  4. (figuratively) To reduce or diminish.
  5. To digest in the stomach.
  6. (transitive) To devise.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/dɪˈkɒkt/
Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin decoquō (“I boil down”), from de- + coquō (“I cook”).

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