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{{also|Marmite}}
==English==
[[File:Marmite (medieval Louvre).jpg|thumb|Seventeenth century [[earthenware]] '''marmite''' in the Louvre]]
[[File:Marmite Musée du Fer.jpg|thumb|A more recent [[cast-iron]] '''marmite''' without its own tripod legs]]

===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|fr|marmite}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈmɑːˌmaɪt/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-marmite.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈmɑɹˌmaɪt/|a=GA}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|countable}} A rounded [[cooking pot]] of various designs, commonly pot-bellied, with or without [[tripod]], handles, lid etc; originally [[earthenware]] but currently more commonly of [[cast iron]] or other metals.
#* '''1824''' Thomas Gill. The Technical Repository p. 180: XXXV: On the French '''''Marmite''''', or ''Pot-au-Feu'': and on preparing ''Bouillon'' with it
#*: My little boy having been ill of a fever for forty days, I have learned from his attendant how to make the celebrated soup (''bouillon'') of Paris: and finding it to be superior to any that I ever before tasted, I take the liberty to send you the directions necessary to enable any one to prepare this cheap and desirable food.<BR>Earthen-pots with covers, made to hold from one to seven pounds of meat, are found in every family. The '''''marmite''''' bought for me was for one-and-a-half pound only: this quantity of lean meat (''bœufmaigre''), was always part of the leg or shoulder: it was put into the '''''marmite''''', which was then filled up with cold water, about five pints, and placed on the hearth, close to the wood-fire; and when it began to [[simmer]] or boil gently, it threw up a [[scum]], which was carefully taken off from time to time with a spoon, for the space of threequarters of an hour, which perfectly [[cleanse]]d the meat and water from every [[impurity]].
# {{lb|en|uncountable|proscribed}} {{alternative case form of|en|Marmite}}.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Mrs. Eustace Miles|chapter=Meatless Soups|title=Every Woman’s Encyclopædia|volume=III|location=London|year=c. 1910|page=1852|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/everywomansencyc03londuoft/page/1852/mode/1up|passage=''Required:'' {{...}} One tablespoonful of nutril or one small teaspoonful of '''marmite'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Laura L. Ulrich|title=Good Food: How to Prepare It|location=Warburton, Vic.|publisher=w:Signs Publishing Company|year=1912|page=61|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/good-food-how-to-prepare-it/page/61/mode/1up|passage=Stir a spoonful of '''marmite''' into some brown gravy, and pour over the potatoes, etc.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|editor=Harry Roberts|title=[[w:Everyman's Library|Everyman]] in Health and in Sickness|location=London|publisher=[[w:J. M. Dent]] and Sons Ltd.|year=1935|page=288|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b29811600/page/288/mode/1up|passage=A teaspoonful of '''marmite''', a dessertspoonful of a good brand of cod-liver oil, and two glasses of water between meals, would make the diet complete.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Annual Report on the Health and Medical Services of the State of Queensland for the Year 1938-39|location=Brisbane, Qld.|publisher={{...|By authority:}} Thomas Gilbert Hope,{{nb...|Acting Government Printer}}|year=1939|page=132|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b31494067/page/132/mode/1up|passage=A spoonful of '''marmite''' added to soups and gravies after they are cooked improves their flavour.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Wilfrid Sheldon|title=Diseases of Infancy and Childhood|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=J. & A. Churchill Ltd|year=1945|page=439|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.11994/page/439/mode/1up|passage=The treatment of this particular form of anæmia lies in giving vitamin B, a suitable preparation being a teaspoonful of '''marmite''' three times a day, together with desiccated gastric mucosa.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Russell Braddon|title=[[w:The Naked Island (book)|The Naked Island]]|location=Garden City, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday & Company, Inc.]]|year=1953|page=211|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/nakedisland0000russ_b8j5/page/211/mode/1up|lccn=52-13375|passage=I crawled up and retrieved it and, wiping it clean on some leaves, looked at the label. “'''Marmite''',” it read. / “You have beriberi,” he shouted. / “I know,” I replied from the mud. / “Take a spoonful of that a day,” he advised. / “Will it do any good?” / “Might,” he replied, and, returning firmly inside the palisade of the headquarters camp, indicated that the subject was closed. I crawled back to our camp, where I found the guards very cross that I had eluded them. I took a spoonful of '''marmite''' and, exhausted, fell asleep.|footer={{small|The [https://archive.org/details/nakedisland0000unse/page/195/mode/1up 1952 edition] uses ''Marmite''.}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Dorothy Hammond Innes|chapter=[The Months] January|title=Home Is My Garden|location=London|publisher=[[w:Harvill Secker|Harvill Press]]|year=1984|page=30|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/homeismygarden00hamm/page/30/mode/1up|isbn=0-00-272311-5|passage=Only a strong man can cut through the rind, but the inside, firm and juicy, we slice with onion, potato, carrot, parsnip – whatever there is – simmer till tender, then put through the liquidizer, bring to the consistency of cream with stock or milk, add nutmeg or mace as well as pepper and salt; if no stock, I add a spoonful of '''marmite''', and always top of milk or a little cream.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:John Wilson (angler)|John Wilson]]|title=Catch Tench|series=The {{w|Angling Times}} Library|location=London|publisher=Boxtree|year=1991|year_published=1994|page=77|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/catchtench0000wils/page/77/mode/1up|isbn=0 7522 1009 2|passage=Finely grated cheddar cheese used 50/50 with bread paste, plus a spoonful of '''marmite''', makes a fabulous tangy bait; it can be fozen{{sic}} and used at any time. Alternatively, try sausage-meat, again used 50/50 with bread paste, with additives like '''marmite''', bovril or a crushed oxo cube kneaded in.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Brother Ramon|title=Heaven on Earth: A Personal Retreat Guide|location=London|publisher=w:Marshall Pickering|year=1991|page=58|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/heavenonearth0000ramo/page/58/mode/1up|isbn=0 551 02019 9|passage=1 pint stock - made by adding a generous spoon of '''marmite''' to boiling water}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Katie Bowes|chapter=The Night Is…|editor=Lucy Jeacock|title=Poetic Voyages: Bristol|volume=II|location=Peterborough, Cambs.|publisher=Young Writers|year=2001|year_published=2002|isbn=0 75433 420 1|passage=The night is a spoonful of '''marmite''' being spread over the planets.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 12, 2008|author=Luca Moretti|title=The ontological status of minimal entities|work=Philosophical Studies|url=|doi=10.1007/s11098-008-9265-6|volume=141|issue=1|pages=
|passage=More informally: vegemite and '''marmite''' share some property.}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aeimmrt|metiram}}

{{C|en|Cookware and bakeware}}

==French==

===Etymology===
In Middle French (attested 1388) used in the sense of an earthen or metal cooking-pot; later (17th century) also of bombs or grenades from their resemblance to iron cooking-pots.
Earlier, the noun {{inh|fr|fro|marmite||}} meant "hypocrite"  (attested 1223); the semantic development is explained as the cooking-pot being covered and not revealing its interior (thus being "hypocritical", as compared to e.g. a cooking-pan or a plate).

The etymology of ''marmite'' "hypocrite" is explained as a compound of  {{m|fro|marmotter||to mutter}}  (from an {{onomatopoeic|fr|title=onomatopoeic}} base ''mar-'' "murmur") and  {{m|fro|mite||cat}} (an obsolete word for "cat", probably also onomatopoeic, i.e. imitative of meowing, extant only in the compound {{m|fr|chattemite}}), and thus describing a person being evasive by "murmuring" or "meowing" instead of speaking plainly.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{audio|fr|LL-Q150 (fra)-0x010C-marmite.wav}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# [[pot]], [[cooking pot]], {{l|en|marmite}} {{defdate|from 1388}}
# {{lb|fr|metonymy}} meal prepared in a cooking pot
# {{lb|fr|military|slang}} (heavy) [[shell]] {{defdate|from 1637}}
# {{lb|fr|dated|slang}}  [[prostitute]], especially one past the first youth, the "flesh pot" of the [[souteneur]]  {{defdate|from 1841}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|fr|faire bouillir la marmite}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|ca|marmita|bor=1}}
* {{desc|en|marmite|bor=1}}
* {{desc|pt|marmita|bor=1}}
* {{desc|es|marmita|bor=1}}
* {{desc|el|μαρμίτα|bor=1}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

===Paronyms===
{{col4|fr
|mammite
}}

{{C|fr|Cookware and bakeware}}