decoction
Meaninga boiling down
Common meaning: liquid made by boiling something down
- dedown, away, off; undoing
- coctto cook; to ripenLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 468 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘down, away, off’ + ‘to cook’ → decoction
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin coquō ‘to cook; to ripen’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry coquō, p. 468 · dictionary scan
Roots
- coquō, coxī, coctum Latin “to cook; to ripen”
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