• COOK

1. coquus: feminine, coqua; coquula (diminutive): the head cook in the house of a wealthy Roman, archimagirus (ἀρχιμάγειρος, Juv., 9, 109): to be one’s own cοοκ, sibi manu sua parare cibum: a cook’s boy, *puer culinarius; plur., culinarii (Scribonius, Larg., 230): hunger is the best cook, cibi condimentum fames est (Cic., De Fin., 2, 28, 90): malum panem tenerum tibi et siligineum fames reddet (Sen., Ep., 123, 2): a cook’s shop, popina: one who keeps a cook’s shop, popinarius (late). A cook’s knife, culter coquinaris (Varr.).

2. v. coquere (to prepare food by heat): mitigare: igne mollire (to make soft by heat): to cook anything in anything (e.g., in milk, oil, etc.), coquere in or ex aliqua re (e.g., in lacte; ex oleo, etc.); incoquere aliqua re or cum aliqua re (e.g., aqua ferventi, cum aqua): to cook anything well, percoquere: to cook some food, cibum or cibaria coquere: cibum parare or comparare (general term for prepare): to cook one’s own meal or dinner, sibi manu sua parare cibum: cooked, coctus; igne mollitus.

3. v. INTR., coquinare (Plaut.).