warm

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. verb get warm or warmer
  2. verb make warm or warmer
  3. adjective having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), or Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur, Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (in which case perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá), or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).

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Synonyms

warm up

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