cocer

• cozer (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cozer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Cognate with Portuguese cozer and Spanish cocer.

• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: co‧cer

cocer (first-person singular present cozo, first-person singular preterite cocín, past participle cocido)

1. to boil, stew

   Synonym: ferver

2. to cook

   Synonym: cociñar

3. to bake

   Synonym: enfornar

   Maruxiña da Forneira / se é que coces faime un bolo / se mo fas faimo de trigo / que o centeo non cho como (traditional song)

   Little Mary of the Baker / if you bake make a loaf for me / and if you make it, make it wheat / because I don't eat rye

4. to fire

   Synonym: enfornar

5. (flax processing) to ret
6. (wine processing) to ferment

   Synonym: fermentar

7. to digest

   Synonym: dixerir

• cocido
• precocer

• cociña
• cociñeiro
• coito

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cocer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cocer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cocer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “cocer”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• cocur

From Proto-West Germanic *kokar, whence also Old Frisian koker, Old Saxon kokar (Dutch koker), Old High German kohhār (German Köcher). The origin of the West Germanic word is unknown, but note that a similar word can be found in Turkic and Mongolic languages: see Proto-Mongolic *kökexür for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ker/

cocer m

1. a quiver for arrows
2. a case, container
3. a sheath

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: coker, cuker, cokir, cocur, cokre, kokur, quequer, koker
  • English: cocker, cogger

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).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /koˈθeɾ/ [koˈθeɾ] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /koˈseɾ/ [koˈseɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: co‧cer
• Homophone: (Latin America) coser

cocer (first-person singular present cuezo, first-person singular preterite cocí, past participle cocido)

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 ― simmer

3. (reflexive, figurative) to brew

   Algo se está cociendo

   Something is brewing

4. (pronominal) to chafe (get sore)

   Synonyms: escocerse, escaldarse

• → Tagalog: kusi

• “cocer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025