The story
- Latin · derived fromcalor“heat”
- English todaycalorimotor
Words from the same roots
Latincalor all →
caloriecalorimetercalorimetrycaloricscaloriferecalorizecaloron
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
calorimotor
Today it means: A voltaic battery, from the 19th century, with a large surface of plate, producing (by the then standards) powerful heating effects. Full definition →
Latin calor