caldeira

• caldera (from Spanish)

Borrowed from Portuguese caldeira. Doublet of chaudière.

caldeira f (plural caldeiras)

1. caldera

• “caldeira”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /kalˈdejɾa/

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

• caldeiro
• caldeirón
• caldo

• “caldeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “caldeyra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “caldeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “caldeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caldeira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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

• caldeirão
• caldeira vulcânica

• caldeiro
• caldo