cocer

to boil; to cook (only used in situations where the food being prepared is submitted to fire; such as through the processes of boiling, simmering or steaming anything; or baking bread slowly in an oven); to brew; to chafe (get sore)

“cocer a fuego lento” — simmer

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Late Latin cocere Old Spanish cozer Spanish cocer Inherited from Old Spanish cozer, from Late Latin cocere, from Latin coquere. Cognate with English cook. Some conjugated forms of the verb were reformed through analogy with the infinitive; in older Spanish, the forms cueza and cuezo were cuega and cuego (< Late Latin cocam, cocō), cocí was coxe (< Latin