cocer

Meaning

  1. to boil
  2. to cook (only used in situations where the food being prepared is submitted to fire; such as through the processes of boiling, simmering or steaming anything; or baking bread slowly in an oven)
  3. (figuratively, reflexive) to brew
  4. (pronominal) to chafe (get sore)

Synonyms

tener fiebre

hacer calor

preparar la comida

hacer cocer el alimento

asar en el rescoldo

quemar tejas

hacer el fuego

Frequency

38k
Hyphenated as
co‧cer
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈθeɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish cozer, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Cognate with English cook. Some conjugated forms of the verb were reformed through analogy with the infinitive; in older Spanish, the forms cueza and cuezo were cuega and cuego (< Late Latin cocam, cocō), cocí was coxe (< Latin coxī), and the past participle was cocho (< Latin coctus).

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