Etymology

thermal

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Today it means: Pertaining to heat or temperature. Full definition →

French thermal ← New Latin *thermalis ← Ancient Greek θέρμη
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʷʰer-“to heat, warm”
  2. Ancient Greek · derived fromθέρμη“heat”
  3. New Latin · derived from*thermalis
  4. French · derived fromthermal
  5. English todaythermal

From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekθέρμη all →

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Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰer- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.