# cauldron
## English
### Alternative forms

* caldron (archaic)
* caudron, cawdron, caadron (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English caudroun, borrowed from Old Northern French caudron, ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), from Latin caldus (“hot”). Spelling later Latinized by having an l inserted. See chowder, caldera.
The military sense is a semantic loan from German Kessel; compare English kettling.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔːl.dɹən/, (dated) /ˈkəʊl.dɹən/
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* Hyphenation: caul‧dron

### Noun

cauldron (plural cauldrons)
* A large bowl-shaped pot used for boiling over an open flame.
    Hypernyms: pot; vessel
    Coordinate terms: kettle (sometimes synonymous); roasting pan, roaster, stewer, Dutch oven
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:Double, double, toile and trouble; / Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.
** 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 102:[…] I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … […]
** 2004, Carl Neal, The Magick Toolbox: The Ultimate Compendium for Choosing and Using Ritual Implements and Magickal Tools, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, →ISBN:Large cauldrons are a little tricky to locate, but are well worth the search if you have a place to safely store and use one.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cauldron.
* (military) A strategic encirclement.
    Coordinate term: kettle
** 1966, George H. Stein, The Waffen SS: Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945, →ISBN, page 217:After having defended the constantly shrinking perimeter of their position for over two weeks, the encircled German units in the Cherkassy “cauldron” were ordered to break out.
** 2012, Hans Wijers, Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army, →ISBN, page 153:The cauldron had been formed, and some 2,000 Soviets had been encircled in it; the division estimated this quite a success.
** 2016, Paul Robinson, “Explaining the Ukrainian Army’s defeat in Donbass in 2014”, in J. L. Black, Michael Johns, editors, The Return of the Cold War: Ukraine, the West and Russia, →ISBN, page 120:This could have been avoided had the Ukrainian Army either evacuated the troops in the southern cauldron once it became clear that their position was untenable or reinforced them substantially in order to reopen supply lines.
* (figurative) An unsettled difficult situation.
    a cauldron of discontent

#### Derived terms

* cauldron arse
* cauldron battle
* cauldron bottom
* cauldronful
* cauldronlike
* witches' cauldron

#### Related terms

* calorie
* chowder
* caldera
* scald
* coddle

#### Translations

Albanian: kazan (sq) m
Arabic: قِدْر (ar) m (qidr)
Egyptian Arabic: قزان m (ʔazaan)
Armenian: կաթսա (hy) (katʻsa)
Aromanian: cãldari f
Azerbaijani: qazan (az)
Bashkir: ҡаҙан (qaźan)
Belarusian: кацёл m (kacjól), каза́н m (kazán)
Bikol Central: kaldero (bcl)
Breton: chaodouron (br) m, per (br) m
Bulgarian: каза́н (bg) m (kazán), коте́л (bg) m (kotél)
Catalan: caldera (ca) f, calder m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 釜 (zh) (fǔ), 大鍋 / 大锅 (zh) (dàguō), 大釜 (zh) (dàfǔ)
Cornish: chek m, kawdarn m
Crimean Tatar: qazan
Czech: kotel (cs) m
Danish: kedel c
Dutch: ketel (nl) m
Egyptian: (wḥꜣt f)
Esperanto: kaldrono (eo)
Estonian: katel (et)
Finnish: pata (fi)
French: chaudron (fr) m
Friulian: cjalderie f, čhalderie f
Galician: caldeiro (gl) m, caldeira (gl) f, briolo m, biolo m, ral m
Georgian: ქვაბი (ka) (kvabi)
German: Kessel (de) m
Greek: χύτρα (el) f (chýtra), καζάνι (el) n (kazáni)
Ancient: λέβης m (lébēs), δευτήρ m (deutḗr)
Hebrew: קְדֵרָה (he) f (kderá)
Hindi: देग (hi) m (deg), हंडा (hi) m (haṇḍā), टाँका (hi) m (ṭā̃kā), देग़ m (deġ)
Hungarian: üst (hu), bogrács (hu), katlan (hu)
Icelandic: ketill (is) m, suðupottur m
Ido: kaldrono (io)
Indonesian: kaldron (id), kuali (id), kawah (id), kenceng (id)
Ingrian: pata
Irish: coire m
Italian: calderone (it) m, pentolone m, caldaia (it) f, paiolo (it) m
Japanese: 大釜 (おおがま, ōgama)
Kazakh: қазан (kk) (qazan)
Khmer: ខ្វាន់ (km) (khvan)
Korean: 가마솥 (ko) (gamasot)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: qazan (ku)
Kyrgyz: казан (ky) (kazan)
Lao: ໝໍ້ (mǭ)
Latin: cortīna f, lebēs m
Macedonian: котел m (kotel), казан m (kazan)
Malay: kaldron, kuali (ms), kawah (ms), kenceng
Mandinka: kalero
Manx: coirrey
Maori: kohua
Megleno-Romanian: căldari f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тогоо (mn) (togoo)
Norman: chaûdgiéthe f, caûdron m, tchaûdron m
Northern Mansi: пут (put)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjele m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: котьлъ m (kotĭlŭ)
Old English: ċietel m, ālfæt n
Ottoman Turkish: قزان (kazan)
Persian: پاتیل (fa) (pâtil), لَوید (fa) (lavid), دیگ (fa) (dig)
Plautdietsch: Grope m
Polish: kocioł (pl) m
Portuguese: caldeirão (pt) m
Romanian: ceaun (ro) n
Russian: котёл (ru) m (kotjól), каза́н (ru) m (kazán)
Sardinian: cadhàrgiu m, caddàrgiu, cadharzu, cadraxu, cadràgiu, cardazu, cradaxu, cradhaxu, labia f, labija, lapia
Scots: caudron, kettil, chader
Scottish Gaelic: coire m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ко̀тао m
Roman: kòtao (sh) m
Sicilian: quadaruni (scn), callaruni (scn), caudaruni (scn)
Slovak: kotol m
Slovene: kotel (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kóśeł m
Spanish: cacerola (es), caldera (es)
Swedish: kittel (sv) c, gryta (sv) c
Tagalog: kaldero
Tajik: дег (deg)
Tatar: казан (tt) (qazan)
Thai: หม้อน้ำ (th) (mɔ̂ɔ-náam), หม้อ (th) (mɔ̂ɔ)
Tibetan: ཁྲོ་ཟངས (khro zangs), དཀྱིལ་ཁྲོ (dkyil khro)
Turkish: kazan (tr)
Turkmen: gaazan, gazan
Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎍𐎃𐎚 (qlḫt)
Ukrainian: коте́л m (kotél), каза́н (uk) m (kazán), баня́к (uk) m (banják)
Urdu: دیگ m (deg)
Uyghur: قازان (qazan)
Uzbek: qozon (uz)
Venetan: calderon m, caldiron, calieron, caldera f, caldiera f
Vietnamese: nồi (vi), vạc (vi)
Welsh: crochan (cy) m, callor m, pair (cy) m
Yiddish: קעסל m (kesl) :

### Anagrams

* Courland, crunodal