Other forms: concocted, concocts, concocting
To concoct is to make something up out of mixed parts. Concoct a story, concoct a drink, concocted an excuse.
Of food and drink it is playful and means throwing things together; of a story or an excuse it means inventing, and the word carries a hint that the result is elaborate and false. Note concoction; and that the Latin means to boil together, from coquere, to cook.
1verbconcoctTo make something up out of mixed parts.
“He concocted a story about a flat tyre to explain why he was late.”
concoct is a making up.
Latin concoquere is con plus coquere, to cook. Cook, kitchen and biscuit come from the same cooking.
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Latin
concoquō — boil, prepare, digest
English, today
concoct
Built from
From Latin concoquō (“boil, prepare, digest”) (influenced by the participle concoctus), from con- (“together”) + coquō (“cook”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA