cauldron
pronunciation
How to pronounce cauldron in British English:
UK [ˈkɔ:ldrən]
How to pronounce cauldron in American English:
US [ˈkɔldrən]
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- Noun:
- a very large pot that is used for boiling
Word Origin
- cauldron
- cauldron: [13] Etymologically, cauldrons are for heating not food but people. The word comes ultimately from Latin calidārium ‘hot bath’, which was a derivative of the adjective calidus ‘warm’ (related to English calorie, and, by a much more circuitous route, lee ‘sheltered area’ and probably lukewarm). Among the descendants of calidārium were late Latin caldāria ‘pot’, which produced French chaudière (possible source of English chowder) and Vulgar Latin *caldario, which passed into Anglo-Norman, with a suffix indicating great size, as caudron ‘large cooking pot’.In English, the l was reintroduced from Latin in the 15th century.=> calorie, chowder, nonchalant
- cauldron (n.)
- c. 1300, caudron, from Anglo-French caudrun, Old North French cauderon (Old French chauderon "cauldron, kettle"), from augmentative of Late Latin caldaria "cooking pot" (source of Spanish calderon, Italian calderone), from Latin calidarium "hot bath," from calidus "warm, hot" (see calorie). The -l- was inserted 15c. in imitation of Latin.
Example
- 1. Rather , it is a roiling , seething cauldron of evanescent particles .
- 2. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless , while army tea , made in a cauldron , tastes of grease and whitewash .
- 3. Fire burn and cauldron bubble
- 4. The country is a cauldron of faiths , sects and clans seething with grudges and mistrust .
- 5. Another says the props master from the original performance stole a cauldron from said coven , and the witches , again , weren 't impressed .