caldeirão

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From caldeira +‎ -ão; compare Italian calderone, French chaudron; cf. also Spanish calderón. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: cal‧dei‧rão === Noun === caldeirão m (plural caldeirões) cauldron (geology) pothole (figurative) melting pot (place where many divergent things come together) (music) fermata Synonym: fermata === Further reading === “caldeirão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “caldeirão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026