Where does “chaufferie” come from?
chaufferie (French) comes from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
chaufferie (French): boiler room or generally any kind of heating system
Definitions
- boiler room or generally any kind of heating system
Ancestry of “chaufferie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 2 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 3 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 4 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 6 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |