Etymology

vaporise

V4A1P3O1R1I1S1E1
English vapor ← Middle English vapour ← Old French vapor
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Italic*kwapōs
  2. Latinvapor
  3. Old Frenchvapeur
  4. Old Frenchvapor
  5. Middle Englishvapour
  6. Englishvapor
  7. English todayvaporise

From vapor + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.