Translation
cook (person), chef
Test yourself on kuiristo
Three quick questions. No account needed.
Know this word? Create a free account to track it.
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from kuiri ('to cook') plus -ist-, the suffix for a trade. The root came from French cuire, from Latin coquere, which also gave English cook, cuisine and biscuit.
- Origin
- Esperanto build on a Latin root
- Root
- kuiri + -ist-
- English cognates
- cook, cuisine, biscuit
Examples
.
The cook works in a large restaurant.
.
The young chef learned his trade in a large hotel.
.
The hotel's cooks start work early.
is kuiri plus --, and it is one of the derivations worth stopping on, because the -- suffix is among the most useful things in the language and two details of it are regularly got wrong.
-- is an occupation, not an action in progress. A is someone whose work is cooking - it is what it says on their contract. Whoever happens to be at the stove this minute is a , with -ant-, the present active participle. The same split runs through the whole vocabulary: instruisto is a teacher by trade, is whoever is teaching right now.
The base is a , not a noun. You build -- onto the action, which is why is one who cooks rather than one who deals in cooking. Take the same root and hang the other suffixes on it and three more words arrive free:
o- the kitchen, with--, the place suffix.o- a cooking implement, with--, the tool suffix.o- a dish, the cooked thing, with--.
That is one root and four words, none of which you have to look up. The suffix set is set out in Affixes: size and people.
Around it: o for a female cook, ĉefkuiristo for a head chef, and kuracisto for the doctor - the same --, a different root, and a good pair to hold in mind together.
Where this fits
Used in
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Meet this word in a story
Every course has graded stories written only with words you have been taught, plus grammar drills, a games arcade and printable worksheets. Chapters 1 and 2 are free.
Chapters 1 and 2 free, forever. Plus: 7 days free, then $5 a month for all eleven languages.
Esperanto · Free printables
kuiristo: worksheet, infographic and listicle
Free printable study downloads for the Esperanto word "kuiristo" (cook (person), chef): a worksheet with the answer key built in, an infographic, and a sentence listicle. Open any one to view, print or save.
Free for members
The printable worksheets, infographics and PDFs are free with an account. Start a free week and download as many as you like.
Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 7: kuiristo, tondi, sociala and 7 more words.