The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐν-“in”
- English todayenthalpy
From Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-, “in”) + θάλπω (thálpō, “to warm”). Coined by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, but first used in print by J. P. Dalton in 1909 in a paper titled "Researches on the Joule-Kelvin-effect, especially at low temperatures".
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἐν- all →
encriniteencrinus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.