-therm
English
suffix
Definitions
- (biology) used to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanism
- heat
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θερμός (warm, hot, heat, lupine).
Origin
Ancient Greek
θερμός
Gloss
warm, hot, heat, lupine
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暑, 熱
Emoji
🌡️ ☀️ 🌞 🌵
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- thermo- English
- thermos English
- Thermus Latin
- therma Latin
- thermae Latin
- Thermit German
- Thermosphäre German
- thermisch German
- thermo- German
- termo- Italian
- thermidor French
- thermo- French
- termo- Spanish, Castilian
- térmico Spanish, Castilian
- θέρμινος Ancient Greek
- θερμός Ancient Greek
- σφαῖρα Ancient Greek
- *gʷʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- termisk Norwegian Bokmål
- termo- Norwegian Bokmål
- termo- Portuguese
- termisk Norwegian Nynorsk
- termo- Norwegian Nynorsk
- teirmi- Irish
- termo- Czech
- termo- Catalan, Valencian
- -θερμος Greek (modern)
- termos Indonesian
- thermophilus Translingual