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cocer.

to boil

5 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

verb/koˈθeɾ/[koˈθeɾ]/koˈseɾ/[koˈseɾ]
  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)

    cocer a fuego lento
  3. to brew

    figuratively · reflexive
    Algo se está cociendo
  4. to chafe (get sore)

    pronominal
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Late Latin cocere Old Spanish cozer Spanish cocer 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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