Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

culinary

/ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.56 in modern English

Syllables
culi-nary
IPA
/ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.

adj

Of or relating to a kitchen.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *pekʷ-, culīnārius

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/
  • British English: /ˈkʌlɪn(ə)ɹi/

Inflected Forms

more culinary (comparative) most culinary (superlative)

Derived Forms

culinarian culinarily ethnoculinary medicoculinary nonculinary unculinary

Phrases

culinary art culinary linguistics

Frequently Paired Words

cook kiln recipe

Synonyms

cooking coquinary culinarian magirological magiristic magiric

Questions

How do you pronounce culinary?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/.
What does culinary mean?
Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
Where does culinary come from?
It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce culinary

  1. Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “culinary”.
  2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/ˈkʌlɪˌnɛɹi/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
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