Where does “chauffoir” come from?
chauffoir (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.
chauffoir (French): warming room; stove; warming pan
Definitions
- warming room; stove; warming pan
Ancestry of “chauffoir”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |