colander

colander
\ \ [14] Colander probably comes ultimately from Latin columsieve’. From this was derived the verb cōlārestrain’, which produced a Vulgar Latin noun *cōlātor. This is assumed to have passed into Old Provençal as colador, which appears to have been the source of early English forms such as culdor- and culatre. The n is a purely English innovation.
\ \ Cf.PERCOLATE, PORTCULLIS

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