casserole

English

A macaroni casserole.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.əˌɹoʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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) Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

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

• lasagna
• Chicago-style pizza
• tuna casserole

Coordinate terms

• (food cooked in such a dish): stew

Derived terms

• caterole
• pizza casserole
• tuna casserole
• tuna noodle casserole

 

Translations

glass or earthenware dish

• Belarusian: кастру́ля f (kastrúlja)
• Bikol Central: kaserola (bcl)
• Bulgarian: касеро́ла f (kaseróla), те́нджера (bg) f (téndžera)
• Catalan: casserola (ca) f, putxero m, olla (ca) f, cassola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砂鍋 / 砂锅 (zh) (shāguō)

• Czech: kastrol (cs) m
• Danish: kasserolle c
• Dutch: ovenschotel (nl)
• Esperanto: kaserolo
• Finnish: vuoka (fi), uunivuoka (fi)
• French: cocotte (fr) f, casserole (fr) f
• Galician: cazola (gl) f, tarteira f
• Georgian: პატარა ქვაბი (ṗaṭara kvabi)
• German: Auflaufform (de) f, Kasserolle (de) f
• Greek: κατσαρόλα (el) f (katsaróla)
• Hebrew: אִלְפָּס (he) m (ilpás)
• Ido: kasrolo (io)
• Italian: casseruola (it) f
• Japanese: キャセロール (kyaserōru)
• Korean: 캐서롤 (kaeseorol)
• Macedonian: тепсија f (tepsija)
• Norman: chanmeau m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kasserolle m

• Ottoman Turkish: كوكج (güvec) (earthenware)
• Polish: naczynie żaroodporne n
• Portuguese: caçarola (pt) f
• Romanian: caserolă (ro) f
• Russian: кастрю́ля (ru) f (kastrjúlja) (из жаропрочного материала)
• Sicilian: cazzalora f, tiganu m
• Slovak: kastról m
• Spanish: cacerola (es) f
• Swedish: gryta (sv) c, lergryta (sv) c, kastrull (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaserola
• Ukrainian: кастру́ля (uk) f (kastrúlja)

food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish

• Belarusian: запяка́нка f (zapjakánka)
• Bikol Central: kaserola (bcl)
• Catalan: olla (ca) f, putxero m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 砂鍋 / 砂锅 (saa¹ wo¹)

  Mandarin: 法國砂鍋 / 法国砂锅 (Fàguó shāguō), 法國烤鍋 / 法国烤锅 (Fàguó kǎoguō)

• Dutch: ovenschotel (nl)
• Finnish: laatikko (fi), pataruoka (fi)
• French: timbale (fr) f
• Galician: caldeirada (gl) f
• German: Auflauf (de) m
• Greek: φαγητό κατσαρόλας n (fagitó katsarólas)
• Italian: pasta al forno f
• Japanese: 蒸し焼き (ja) (mushi-yaki), キャセロール (kyaserōru)
• Polish: zapiekanka (pl) f
• Russian: запека́нка (ru) f (zapekánka)
• Sicilian: manciari ô furnu m
• Spanish: cazuela (es) f
• Swedish: gryta (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaserola
• Ukrainian: запіка́нка f (zapikánka)
• Yup'ik: salkuuyaq

Verb

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 […]

Translations

to cook as a casserole i.e. in a closed dish

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 燜 / 焖 (mun¹)

• Maori: tūkohu

Anagrams

• cresolase, escaroles

French

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sʁɔl/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: casseroles

Noun

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

Derived terms

• chanter comme une casserole
• passer à la casserole

Descendants

• → 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

Further reading

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