cacerola

Forms

cacerola f (plural cacerolas)^[1]

Etymology

Corominas considers it borrowed from French casserole (1583), which came by way of Occitan from Catalan casserola (1593), a diminutive of cassera (“vessel for drawing water”), from cassa (“ladle, pan”).^[2][3] Prat Sabater counts it among the words in which Catalan is only an indirect intermediary, Spanish having it from French, French from Occitan and Occitan from Catalan.^[4] The DHLF derives the French word from casse (“ladle-shaped vessel”), from Old Occitan cassa, with a diminutive suffix.^[5][6] The DLE says only that it comes from cazo.^[7]

That word and its Catalan and Italian cognates, the latter Italian cazza, are of uncertain origin.^[2] Meyer-Lübke identified them with Medieval Latin cattia (“ladle; crucible”) of the glosses, but Corominas doubts this.^[2] The DHLF and García de Diego trace the Medieval Latin word to Ancient Greek κύαθος (kúathos, “cup, ladle”).^[5][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Corominas has it first in Terreros (1765–1783).^[2][3] The CDH's earliest hit is a Buenos Aires inventory of 1783, which lists twelve pounds of oil en una cacerola.^[9] Proust writes cazerola in 1791.^[9]

Semantic evolution

In 1817 the Academy defined it as a metal or iron vessel with a long handle, for cooking and stewing; by 1843 it described it as cylindrical, and 1884 gave its etymology from cazo.^[10][11][12] The DLE now describes it with handles on both sides rather than a long handle, and Moliner contrasts it with the cazo, which has a single handle.^[7][13][14] From it come cacerolada and cacerolazo, a protest by banging pans.^[1] In El Salvador it is a taboo word for the vulva.^[15]

Timeline

• 1525 – Boyd-Bowman cites ollas y cacerolas from Nombre de Dios,^[16] earlier than the 1583 record of the French source word.^[2]
• 1583 – French casserole is first recorded.^[2][5]
• 1765–1783 – Terreros, the first record in Corominas.^[2][3]
• 1783 – the CDH's first hit, an inventory from Buenos Aires.^[9]
• 1817 – the Academy's dictionary includes it.^[10]
• 1884 – the Academy derives it from cazo.^[12]

Meanings

Noun

1. A saucepan or casserole: a low cylindrical metal pot with handles, used for cooking and stewing: Pon la cacerola al fuego con un poco de aceite.^[7][1][13]

Word family

• cacerolada
• cacerolazo
• cacerolear

Related words

• cazo
• cazuela
• French casserole

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 1, 934
3. ^ a b c Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. cazo
4. ^ Prat Sabater, Marta (2003), Préstamos del catalán en el léxico español, doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, p. 87
5. ^ a b c Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. casserole
6. ^ Bénaben, Michel (2000), Dictionnaire étymologique de l'espagnol, Paris: Ellipses, p. s.v. cacerola
7. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. cacerola
8. ^ García de Diego, Vicente (1985), Diccionario etimológico español e hispánico, 2nd ed., Madrid: Espasa-Calpe (1st ed. 1954), p. 2068
9. ^ a b c Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. cacerola
10. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1817), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 5th ed., Madrid: Imprenta Real, p. 914
11. ^ Real Academia Española (1843), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 9th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Francisco María Fernández, p. 123
12. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 183
13. ^ a b Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. cacerola
14. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. cacerola
15. ^ Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2010), Diccionario de americanismos, Lima: Santillana; online at https://www.asale.org/damer, p. s.v. cacerola
16. ^ Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. cacerola