caldeira

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese caldeira. Doublet of chaudière.

Noun

caldeira f (plural caldeiras)

  1. caldera

Further reading

Galician

Spurs and caldeiras in the coat of arms of the Galician Puga family (implying the capacity of maintaining their supporters)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caldeyra, from Late Latin caldāria~caldārium (cooking-pot), derived from Latin caldus (hot). Doublet of caldeiro.

Pronunciation

Noun

caldeira f (plural caldeiras)

  1. pot; cauldron
    • 1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 380:
      et hua caldeyra et huum caldeyroon et huas greelas et huum speto de ferro et huum acetere et hua arameña et huas Gramalleyras et das outras perfeas de casa todos los bacios et escudelas et talladores et salseyros de fuste que ouuer na casa et hua mesa
      and a pot, and a cauldron, and a grill, and a skewer of iron, and a jug, and a pot of cooper, and a trammel; and of the rest of domestic ware, every bucket, and bowl, and knives, and saucers of wood that are in the house, and a table
    • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
      Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
      eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
      conque fazer os Formigos,
      e de mel vnha caldeyra,
      que os meus cobos e cortizos
      teñen moy boas entenas;
      porque sairon ogano
      moytos enjames d'abellas.
      Twenty-five dozens of eggs
      I offer her, so that they have the necessary
      to cook the formigos;
      and of honey a pot,
      because my skeps and hives
      have very good honeycombs,
      because this year
      many swarms of bees went out
  2. boiler (device for heating circulating water)
  3. (volcanology) caldera (large crater)
  4. ditch

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caldeyra, from Late Latin caldāria~caldārium (cooking-pot), derived from Latin caldus (hot). Doublet of caldeiro.

Pronunciation

 
 

Noun

caldeira f (plural caldeiras)

  1. boiler (device for heating circulating water)
  2. (volcanology) caldera (large crater)
    Synonym: cratera
  3. (nautical) small inlet or bay
    Synonym: enseada

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