Etymology 1
Substantivization of the feminine of caldārius (“hot water”, relational adjective). Attested in sense 1 in Marcellus Empiricus and sense 2 in the Vulgate.[1]
Noun
caldāria f (genitive caldāriae); first declension (Late Latin)
- warm bath
- Synonym: caldārium (Classical)
- kettle, cooking-pot, cauldron
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- >? Vulgar Latin: *caldārōnem
- Borrowings:
- → Basque: galdari
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kalldọr
- Middle Breton: cauter
- Cornish: kaltor
- Old Welsh: calaur
- Masculine forms from the variant caldārium n
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: caddarzu, caddargiu, cadraxu, cradaxu
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “caldaria”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 115
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.