casserole

Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/

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casserole (countable and uncountable, plural casseroles)

1. (countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
2. Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

   a chicken casserole

3. (by extension) Food that fills the high-walled dish or pan that it was cooked in. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• (glass or earthenware dish): casserole dish
• (food cooked in such a dish): hotpot (UK)
• (both senses): hotdish

(food filling and cooked in a high-walled pan):

• (food cooked in such a dish): stew

casserole (third-person singular simple present casseroles, present participle casseroling, simple past and past participle casseroled)

1. (transitive) To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.
   • 1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16:

     Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]

• cresolase, escaroles

Inherited from Middle French casserolle. By surface analysis, casse (“container, recipient”) +‎ -erole (diminutive suffix), a form of -ole lengthened with -er-. The first part is derived from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”) influenced by Provençal caça. Similar, related formations include cassole (without the -er-) and casseron (using the diminutive suffix -eron, from -on).

• IPA^(key): /ka.sʁɔl/

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• Homophone: casseroles

casserole f (plural casseroles)

1. saucepan (utensil)

   Synonym: poêlon

2. (transferred sense) saucepan (contents of a saucepan)
3. (Belgium) stewpot, cooking pot

   Synonyms: faitout, marmite

• chanter comme une casserole
• passer à la casserole

• → Algerian Arabic: كسرونة (kasrūna)
• → Bulgarian: касеро́ла (kaseróla)
• → Danish: kasserolle
• → English: casserole
• → German: Kasserolle
• → Moroccan Arabic: كسرونة (kasrūna)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kasserolle
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: kasserolle
• → Portuguese: caçarola
• → Russian: кастрю́ля (kastrjúlja)
• → Vietnamese: xoong

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