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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:02pm on 21/08/2009
Is there a word for "of or pertaining to recipes" or "of or pertaining to cookbooks"? I can't find it. The closest I can come via obvious Latin is "compositional", which may not be quite what I'm looking for.

Edited to add: Good suggestions! This may call for a poll.
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posted by [identity profile] rhiannon76.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 21/08/2009
Is "culinary" too non-specific?
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 05:13pm on 21/08/2009
That's about cooking, as opposed to the texts or formulas of cooking. It's a good suggestion, but I was hoping for something more specific, coined for the occasion or otherwise.
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posted by [identity profile] m31andy.livejournal.com at 05:42pm on 21/08/2009
culinarobiblographic?

I've been doing way too much German, obviously...
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posted by [identity profile] noncalorsedumor.livejournal.com at 06:40pm on 21/08/2009
I want "recipial" to be a word. I think if I can get Stephen Colbert to start using it, it'll become standard within 10 years.

(In other words, I got nothin'.)
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posted by [identity profile] whatifoundthere.livejournal.com at 07:50pm on 21/08/2009
Reciprocal!
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posted by [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com at 08:05pm on 21/08/2009
Reception Theory!
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 09:55pm on 21/08/2009
"Recipient" would come from the same Latin word, via a natural English process. We could make this happen...
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posted by [identity profile] arcana-mundi.livejournal.com at 12:06am on 22/08/2009
I'd go with gastronomy (adj. gastronomic) - as the nearest best term for the body of knowledge pertaining to cooking as an art and science.
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posted by [identity profile] printperson.livejournal.com at 02:37am on 22/08/2009
in Italian, you might be able to get away with constructing the adjective "ricettariale" , having to do with recipe books (from ricettario, cookbook).
Edited Date: 2009-08-22 02:40 am (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] 4ll4n0.livejournal.com at 04:31am on 22/08/2009
In response to some of the comments I thought of gastrological (words/accounts about the stomach, gastronomy would literally be rules governing the stomach), but that is actually already a medical specialty. Also a medical term gastrography (taking x-rays and the like of the stomach), but would literally mean writing (and drawing) about the stomach and arguably would refer to cookbooks (if gastronomy refers to the art/science/rules of cooking).

I looked up cooking in my English-Ancient Greek dictionary and the word (actually one of several) for a cook is μαγειρος (magiros) and cookery μαγειροκη(magirika) (sadly recipe is absent from my dictionary). Apparently there is an obsolete term magirology ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magirology ) for the science and study of cooking.

So I would suggest as a useful neologism "magirography", for writings about cooking including recipe and cookbooks and related matter.

Of course I`m trying to stick to the rule of only using one language to form the new word. If your feeling liberal you can mix it up.

One less prosaic suggestion struck me: "cookbookery."
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posted by [identity profile] geesepalace.livejournal.com at 01:07am on 24/08/2009
A receptary is defined in the OED as a book or collection of recipes. It would follow that the relevant adjective is receptarial.
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