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English term or phrase:
caldera
French translation:
caldeira / caldera
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caldeira / caldera
Robert :
caldeira [kaldeYa] n. f. VAR. caldera
• 1874; caldera 1903; mot port. « chaudière »
¨ Géol. Grand cratère volcanique, formé par l'effondrement de la partie supérieure du cône à la suite d'une éruption, qui émet en un temps très bref une grande quantité de matières.
OED :
caldera
n noun a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
ORIGIN
C17: from Spanish, from late Latin caldaria 'boiling pot'.
caldeira [kaldeYa] n. f. VAR. caldera
• 1874; caldera 1903; mot port. « chaudière »
¨ Géol. Grand cratère volcanique, formé par l'effondrement de la partie supérieure du cône à la suite d'une éruption, qui émet en un temps très bref une grande quantité de matières.
OED :
caldera
n noun a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
ORIGIN
C17: from Spanish, from late Latin caldaria 'boiling pot'.
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