Where does “cauffoir” come from?
cauffoir (Picard) comes from French chauffoir, 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.
Ancestry of “cauffoir”, step by step
cauffoir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French chauffoir
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | chauffoir | warming room; stove; warming pan |
| 2 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 3 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 4 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 5 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 7 | Latin | calefaciō | to warm or heat |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Latin calefacere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | calefacere | present active infinitive of calefaciō; warm,... |