Where does “calefactory” come from?
calefactory (English) comes from Latin calefactorius, from Latin calefaciō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
calefactory (English): warming; The room or building in a monastery...
Definitions
- warming; The room or building in a monastery...
Ancestry of “calefactory”, step by step
calefactory traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin calefactorius
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | calefactorius | having a warming or heating power |
| 2 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Medieval Latin calefactōrium
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | calefactōrium | — |