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cuptor
oven /kupˈtor/
noun#3650 most common
Also: furnace, kiln
Example sentences
Pâinea este în cuptor.
The bread is in the oven.
Mama pune prăjitura în cuptor.
Mom puts the cake in the oven.
Am cumpărat un cuptor cu microunde nou.
I bought a new microwave oven.
Cuptorul s-a încins prea tare și prăjitura s-a ars.
The oven got too hot and the cake burned.
În satele de munte, pâinea se coace și azi în cuptoare de lut construite de bunici.
In mountain villages, bread is still baked today in clay ovens built by grandparents.
Arheologii au descoperit rămășițele unui cuptor de ars cărămidă datând din epoca romană.
Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a brick-firing kiln dating from the Roman era.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cuptor | cuptoare |
| Genitive | cuptorului | cuptoarelor |
| Accusative | cuptor | cuptoare |
| Vocative | cuptorule | cuptoarelor |
Word family
a coaceto bake, to cook
coptbaked, cooked, ripe
coacerebaking, the act of cooking
cuptorașlittle oven (diminutive)
Etymology
Cuptor descends from popular Latin, built on the stem of coquere, "to cook." The same Latin verb gave Romanian the everyday verb a coace, "to bake," and its past participle copt, "baked." The oven, in other words, is literally named after the act of cooking that happens inside it.
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