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Gender Masculine
Pronounced Pron. KAHL-sih-fer, KAL-sə-fər  [key]
Other Forms FormsCalsifer

Meaning & History

This is the name of a fire demon in the 1986 young adult fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle, written by Diana Wynne Jones.

Perhaps derived from French calcifier "to calcify", stemming from Latin calx "lime, limestone", or from calx "lime" and ferre "to bring".
Added 4/20/2009 by lillyanna
Edited 4/18/2023 by elbowin, ari., LMS and more