skillet

skillet
\ \ [15] Skillet may come ultimately from the same source as English scuttlelarge container’ – Latin scutella, a diminutive form of scutradish, platter’. This was altered in the postclassical period to *scūtella, which passed into Old French as escuele (source of Middle English skeledish’, recorded only once). A further diminutive form escueletesmall platter’ emerged, which is a plausible source of English skillet. (An alternative possibility is that it was derived from the now virtually obsolete English skeelbucket’ [14], which was borrowed from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse skjólabucket’.)
\ \ Cf.SCUTTLE

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