stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stōv
ipa: /stəʊv/
enpr: stŭv
note: Indic
ipa: /sʈəv/
Forms: form: stoves
Etymology: From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu, *stubō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Doublet of stufa.
Senses: examples: text: 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309.
[I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.
text: We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
glosses: A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
glosses: A stovetop, with hotplates.
examples: text: There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
ref: 1850, M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine, part 8:
text: Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]
ref: 1854, The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine, volume 4, page 208:
glosses: A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
examples: text: April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy
When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.
text: How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
Derived terms: air stove
camping stove
campstove
camp stove
cocklestove
cookstove
dry stove
everything but the galley stove
foot stove
Franklin stove
halogen stove
hexamine stove
hexi stove
hexy stove
hobo stove
hot stove
hot stove league
laundry stove
magazine stove
monkey stove
oil stove
oilstove
pellet stove
portable stove
potbellied stove
potbelly stove
Primus stove
stove enamel
stove fitter
stoveful
stovehouse
stoveless
stovelike
stovemaker
stovemaking
stovepipe
stove polish
stoveside
stove-top
stoveware
stovewood
woodstove