The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*gʷʰer-“to heat, warm”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromθέρμη“heat”
- New Latin · derived from*thermalis
- French · derived fromthermal
- 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 →
Thermidoreurythermiathermantidote
Proto-Indo-European*gʷʰer- all →
goreJarrowgurry
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.