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  • 51furnace — early 13c., from O.Fr. fornaise oven, furnace (12c.), from L. fornacem (nom. fornax) an oven, kiln, related to fornus, furnus oven, and to formus warm, from PIE root *ghwer warm (Cf. Gk. thermos, O.E. wearm; see WARM (Cf …

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  • 52thermal — (adj.) 1756, having to do with hot springs, from Fr. thermal (Buffon), from Gk. therme heat, from PIE *ghwerm /*ghworm warm (Cf. L. fornax an oven, kiln, formus warm, O.E. wearm; see WARM (Cf. warm)). Sense of having to do with hea …

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  • 53warm — {{11}}warm (adj.) O.E. wearm, from P.Gmc. *warmaz (Cf. O.S., O.Fris., M.Du., O.H.G., Ger. warm, O.N. varmr, Goth. warmjan to warm ), from PIE *gwher (Cf. Skt. gharmah heat; O.Pers. Garmapada , name of the fourth month, corresponding to June/July …

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  • 54gorjeti — gòrjeti (Ø) nesvrš. <prez. rīm, pril. sad. rēći, imp. gòri, gl. im. rēnje> DEFINICIJA 1. biti u plamenu [drvo gori]; izgarati, sagorijevati 2. davati svjetlost [žarulja gori]; osvjetljavati 3. a. biti u vatri, imati vrućicu, groznicu [čelo… …

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  • 55ЖАР. — Общесл., имеющее соответствия в других индоевр. яз. (ср. др. инд. haras «жар», лат. formus «горячий»). Общесл. *geЖАР.rb того же корня, что и гореть, но с перегласовкой о/е …

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  • 56fermosu —    significado: lechera de hierro con un saliente cilíndrico abajo para extraer el suero de la leche y elaborar la manteca; butía con piniitsu, en otras zonas    etimología: tal vez del lat. formus ( caliente ); o de formosus ( hermoso ); o de… …

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  • 57furnace — [13] Etymologically, furnace means roughly ‘warm place’. It comes via Old French fornais from Latin fornāx ‘furnace’. This was a derivative of fornus ‘oven’, a word related to formus ‘warm’, which goes back to the same Indo European source,… …

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  • 58warm — [OE] English, German, and Dutch warm and Swedish and Danish varm go back to a common prehistoric source, *warmaz. This in turn was descended from Indo European *ghworm , *ghwerm , which also produced Greek thermós ‘hot’ (source of English thermal …

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  • 59forceps — [fôr′seps΄, fôr′səps] n. pl. forceps [L, orig., smith s tongs < formus, WARM + capere, to take: see HAVE] tongs or pincers for grasping, compressing, and pulling, used esp. by surgeons and dentists …

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  • 60warm — [wôrm] adj. [ME < OE wearm, akin to Ger warm < IE base * gwher , hot > Gr thermē, heat, thermos, warm, theros, summer, L formus, warm, fornax, furnace] 1. a) having or giving off a moderate degree of heat [a warm iron, warm coffee] b)… …

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