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vapour

Meaningsteam

Common meaning: a mist or gas

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KWAP‘breathe out, to reek’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 83, p. 733 · scan
  2. Latinvapor‘steam, vapour’
  3. Frenchvapeur
  4. Middle Englishvapoursource
  5. Englishvapour‘a mist or gas’ · today

vap also in: evaporate

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin vapor ‘steam, vapour’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry vapor, p. 1957 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • vapor Latin “steam, vapour”

Related words

evaporate

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