Editing Caudle (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Caudle spoon MET SF13 42 89 img1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.3|A silver caudle spoon, Dutch, 17th-century]]

The word ''caudle'' came into [[Middle English]] via the [[Old French|Old North French]] word ''caudel'', ultimately derived from [[Latin]] {{lang|la|caldus}}, "warm".{{sfn|Harper}} According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]], the word derived from Medieval Latin {{lang|la|caldellum}}, a diminutive of {{lang|la|caldum}}, a warm drink, from {{lang|la|calidus}}, hot.<ref name=EB1911/> The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] cites the use of the word to 1297. The word's etymological connection to heat makes it [[cognate]] with "cauldron".