caudron

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːdɹən/

caudron (plural caudrons)

1. Obsolete form of cauldron.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     There placed was a caudron wide and tall
     Upon a mightie fornace, burning whott

• candour

caudron

1. Alternative form of caudroun

Variant of chaudron, chauderon, from chaud(iere) with the suffix -eron, or from a derivative of Latin caldarium.

caudron m (oblique plural caudrons, nominative singular caudrons, nominative plural caudron) (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French)

1. (Old Northern French) cooking pot

• chaut
• chaudiere

• Middle French: chaudron
  • French: chaudron
• Norman: caûdron
• Walloon: tchôdron
• → Middle English: caudroun, caldron, caldroun, cauderoun, caudorne, caudron, cawdoron, cawdren, cawdroun, chaldron, gaudron
  • English: cauldron (obsolete caldron, caudron); chaldron
  • Scots: caudron, cauthron