The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromθερμός“warm”
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromδρόσος“dew”
- English todayisodrosotherm
From iso- + Ancient Greek δρόσος (drósos, “dew”) + Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”) (equivalent to thermo-).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekδρόσος all →
drosometer
Ancient Greekθερμός all →
thermosthermthermicthermite-therm-thermicthermo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.