# thermos
## English
### Etymology 1

Genericization of the trademark Thermos, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”). Possibly related to English warm.

#### Alternative forms

* Thermos

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈθɜː.mɒs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈθɝ.məs/

#### Noun

thermos (plural thermoses or (rare) thermoi)
* A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

##### Synonyms

* thermal flask
* thermos flask
* vacuum flask

##### Descendants

* → Dhivehi: ތަރުމޯޒު (tarumōzu)

##### Translations
#### See also

* dewar

#### Further reading

* thermos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek θέρμος (thérmos).

#### Noun

thermos (plural thermoi)
* (historical) A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.
** 1982, “Metrology (3455–3460)”, in A[dam] Bülow-Jacobsen, J[ohn] E[dwin] G[eorge] Whitehorne, editors, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Graeco-Roman Memoirs; No. 69), volume XLIX, […] for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, […], →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 101, 104, and 105:The mnaeion contains 4 gold pieces, 16 quarters, 64 thermoi, 128 carats. The gold piece contains 4 staters [sic for quarters], 16 thermoi, 32 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats. The quarter contains 4 thermoi, 8 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats. […] The mnaeion has sixteen (16) quarters and the quarter has 6 thermoi, twelve (12) carats. The thermos has 2 carats, so that the mnaeion consists of 96 thermoi, 192 carats. The mnaeion weighs 8 drachmas, the quarter three obols, the thermos one-half obol, the carat 2 chalci. […] Thermoi of 2 and of 1½ siliquae are attested in metrological writings (MSR II 180, s.v. θέρμοϲ); ½ ob. per thermus in 18 implies the lighter weight, as 1 ob. = 3 sil. […] The mnaeion has 16 quarters and the quarter has (4 or 6) thermoi…
** 2005, Lawrence H[arvey] Schiffman, “Sacrificial Halakhah in the Fragments of the Aramaic Levi Document from Qumran, the Cairo Genizah, and Mt. Athos Monastery”, in Esther G[lickler] Chazon, Devorah Dimant, Ruth A[nne] Clements, editors, Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran: […], Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 199:1 saton (seʾah) = 1/3 ephah (see above for correction) = 2/3 bath / mina by weight = 50 shekels / ¼ shekel = 4 thermoi / shekel = 16 thermoi and one weight (?)
** 2013, James R. Davila, “Aramaic Levi”, in Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, Alex Panayotov, editors, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, volume one, Grand Rapids, Mich., Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 138:A third of a seah is a third of an ephah, and two-thirds of a bath, and the weight of a mina is fifty of shekels, and a quarter of a shekel is the weight of four thermoi.$^g$ Let the shekel be about sixteen thermoi and of one weight. […] g. “thermoi”—A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.

### Anagrams

* Mothers, smother, moth-ers, mothers

## French
### Etymology

Genericized trademark.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛʁ.mos/, /tɛʁ.mɔs/

### Noun

thermos m (plural thermos)
* thermos

### Further reading

* “thermos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.