calorie

calorie · noun¹

1. Latin · derived fromcalor
2. French · borrowed fromcalorie
3. English todaycalorie

Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.

Calorie · noun²

From calorie, with a case-sensitive orthographic convention applied to mark the distinction between a small calorie and a large calorie, which are different by a factor of 1000.

Words from the same roots