The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαῦμα“heat, especially of the sun”
- Latin · borrowed fromcauma“heat”
- English todaycauma
Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek καῦμα (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκαῦμα all →
calm
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.