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culinaire

French, adjective/ky.li.nɛʁ/

culinaire is a French adjective meaning “culinary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a rapport à la cuisine”.

What does culinaire mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    culinary

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui a rapport à la cuisine.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of culinaire

  • culinaires plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce culinaire?

  • /ky.li.nɛʁ/
  • \ky.li.nɛʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to culinaire

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is culinaire in French?

culinaire appears 3.6 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).