cuire

See also: cuiré

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɥiʁ/

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• Homophones: cuir, cuirs

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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.

Usage notes

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.

Conjugation

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

Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cuisant /kɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cuit /kɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuis /kɥi/	cuis /kɥi/	cuit /kɥi/	cuisons /kɥi.zɔ̃/	cuisez /kɥi.ze/	cuisent /kɥiz/
	imperfect	cuisais /kɥi.zɛ/	cuisais /kɥi.zɛ/	cuisait /kɥi.zɛ/	cuisions /kɥi.zjɔ̃/	cuisiez /kɥi.zje/	cuisaient /kɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	cuisis /kɥi.zi/	cuisis /kɥi.zi/	cuisit /kɥi.zi/	cuisîmes /kɥi.zim/	cuisîtes /kɥi.zit/	cuisirent /kɥi.ziʁ/
	future	cuirai /kɥi.ʁe/	cuiras /kɥi.ʁa/	cuira /kɥi.ʁa/	cuirons /kɥi.ʁɔ̃/	cuirez /kɥi.ʁe/	cuiront /kɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuirais /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirais /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirait /kɥi.ʁɛ/	cuirions /kɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	cuiriez /kɥi.ʁje/	cuiraient /kɥi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuise /kɥiz/	cuises /kɥiz/	cuise /kɥiz/	cuisions /kɥi.zjɔ̃/	cuisiez /kɥi.zje/	cuisent /kɥiz/
	imperfect2	cuisisse /kɥi.zis/	cuisisses /kɥi.zis/	cuisît /kɥi.zi/	cuisissions /kɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	cuisissiez /kɥi.zi.sje/	cuisissent /kɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cuis /kɥi/	—	cuisons /kɥi.zɔ̃/	cuisez /kɥi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• → Esperanto: kuiri

See also

• cuisine
• cuisson
• cuisant

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cuire

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

Anagrams

• curie

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪɾʲə/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cuire m (genitive singular cuire, nominative plural cuirí)

1. band, troop

Declension

Declension of cuire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cuire cuirí Vocative a chuire a chuirí Genitive cuire cuirí Dative cuire cuirí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cuire na cuirí Genitive an chuire na gcuirí Dative leis an gcuire don chuire leis na cuirí

Derived terms

• banchuire (“band, group of women”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cuire

1. present subjunctive analytic of cuir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuire	chuire	gcuire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• 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

Middle French

Verb

cuire

1. Alternative form of cuyre

Norman

Alternative forms

• tchuithe (Jersey)

Etymology

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

Verb

cuire

1. (Guernsey) to cook

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

Verb

cuire

1. to cook

Conjugation

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.

    Conjugation of cuire (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		cuire			avoir cuit
gerund		en cuisant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		cuisant
past participle		cuit
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	cuis, cui	cuis	cuist, cuit	cuisons, cuions	cuisiez, cuiiez	cuisent, cuient
	imperfect	cuisoie, cuiseie	cuisoies, cuiseies	cuisoit, cuiseit	cuisiiens, cuisiens	cuisiiez, cuisiez	cuisoient, cuiseient
	preterite	cuis	cuisis	cuist	cuisimes	cuisistes	cuistrent
	future	cuirai	cuiras	cuira	cuirons	cuiroiz, cuireiz, cuirez	cuiront
	conditional	cuiroie, cuireie	cuiroies, cuireies	cuiroit, cuireit	cuiriiens, cuiriens	cuiriiez, cuiriez	cuiroient, cuireient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	cuise, cuie	cuises, cuies	cuise, cuie	cuisiens, cuisons, cuiiens, cuions	cuisiez, cuiiez	cuisent, cuient
	imperfect	cuisisse	cuisisses	cuisist	cuisissons, cuisissiens	cuisissoiz, cuisissez, cuisissiez	cuisissent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	cuis, cui	—	cuisons, cuions	cuisiez, cuiiez	—

Descendants

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

References

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cuirthe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurʲe/

Verb

cuire

1. second-person singular imperative of fo·ceird

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cuire	chuire	cuire pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.