Kitchenry

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The tools, equipment, and furnishings designed for use in food preparation spaces serve as fundamental elements of culinary endeavors
2. All the tools and apparatus used in a kitchen for cooking and food preparation
3. The collection of implements and devices essential for culinary tasks in a cooking area

Etymology: "Kitchenry" is simply "kitchen" with the suffix "-ry" attached. That suffix, borrowed through Old French from Latin roots, forms collective nouns for goods, practices, or places associated with something, as in "pottery", "machinery", and "jewelry". Adding it to "kitchen" produces a word for the whole body of equipment belonging to a kitchen rather than any single utensil. "Kitchen" itself has an older and more surprising sense: in Old English, "cycene" was a Latin borrowing from "coquina", a word for a cookhouse. The "-ry" ending follows the same pattern as "cookery" and "pantry", so "kitchenry" sits comfortably among those older formations.