different between decoct vs decoction

English

Etymology

From Latin decoqu? (“I boil down”), from de- + coqu? (“I cook”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??k?kt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??k?kt/

Verb

decoct (third-person singular simple present decocts, present participle decocting, simple past and past participle decocted)

1. (cooking) To make an infusion.
2. (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
   • 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Volume 2, page 54

     Her ambition had hitherto been confined to being the best of wives,—so she scolded the servants—opened no book but her book of receipts—made soup without meat—decocted cowslips, parsneps, currants, and gooseberries, which, if not good wine, were very tolerable vinegar

3. (figuratively) To heat as if by boiling.
4. (figuratively) To reduce or diminish.
5. To digest in the stomach.
6. (transitive) To devise.

Related terms

• decoction

English

Etymology

From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decocti?, from decoqu? (“I boil down”), from de- + coqu? (“I cook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k?k??n/

Noun

decoction (countable and uncountable, plural decoctions)

1. An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
2. The process of boiling something down in this way.
   • 1804, The Medical and Physical Journal (page 563)

     Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.

Related terms

• decoct

Translations

Old French

Noun

decoction f (oblique plural decoctions, nominative singular decoction, nominative plural decoctions)

1. Alternative form of decoccion