warm
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *warmaz
Proto-West Germanic *warm
Old English wearm
Middle English warm
English warm
From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, from one of:
* Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), which is related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).
* Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), in which case cognate with Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (making perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá).
In any case cognate within Germanic to West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur.
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: warmer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: warmest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: warme
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: warms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: warming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: warmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: warmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: warme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: warms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: warme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
pos: adj
examples: The tea is still warm.
This is a very warm room.
Warm and still is the summer night.
It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.
While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.
Kids jump into Lake Michigan during unseasonably warm conditions in Chicago on February 26, 2024. […] This winter was the warmest on record for the Lower 48, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information said Friday. Records date to the late 1800s.
gloss: Friendly and with affection.
pos: adj
examples: We have a warm friendship.
gloss: Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
pos: adj
gloss: Close to a goal or correct answer.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Earlier you were way off, but now you're getting warmer.
That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all.
gloss: Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
pos: adj
gloss: Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a warm piano sound
gloss: Ardent, zealous.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: a warm debate, with strong words exchanged
Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!
They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.
To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
I had been none of the warmest of partisans.
gloss: Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
pos: adj
tags: dated
informal
examples: You shall have a draught upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he is as warm a man as any within five miles round him.
Mrs. and the Miss Cathcarts began to be considered as people of some consequence in the circle in which they moved, while he gradually obtained in the city the name of a warm man.
I know the Stuyvesant family —puff— every one of them —puff— not a more respectable family in the province —puff— old standards —puff— warm householders —puff— none of your upstarts
And he'd leave missis the house and enough money to keep it up in style. He was a warm man, it seems.
That’s right; that’s the way he’s made his bit. He’s a warm man, is Mr. Noakes.
gloss: Requiring arduous effort.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
gloss: To make or keep warm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
enough to warm, but not enough to burn
gloss: To become warm, to heat up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My socks are warming by the fire.
The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
gloss: (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
He is warming to the idea.
Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
gloss: To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
gloss: To become ardent or animated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The speaker warms as he proceeds.
gloss: To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.
Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
gloss: To give emotional warmth to a person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.
gloss: To beat or spank.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]
gloss: To scold or abuse verbally.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
gloss: To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?
Sit ye down before the fire , my dear , and have a warm
Synonyms: warm
tepid
mild
balmy
Antonyms: Arctic
cold
cool
frozen
Related words: heated
hot
steamy
temperature
tepid
Derived words: cold hands, warm heart
lukewarm
milk-warm
muffin-warm
piss-warm
warm antibody
warm as life
warm as toast
warm bank
warm-blooded
warm-bloodedness
warm body
warm boot
warm carl
warm dark matter
warm-down
warm front
warm fuzzy
warm hatch
warm-hearted
warmhearted
warm hose
warm-hot intergalactic medium
warm hub
warm ionized medium
warmish
warm line
warmly
warm prop
warm regards
warm space
Warm Springs
warm storage
warm store
warm transfer
warm-up
warm up
warm wallet
warm-water port
warm working
wet and warm
like death warmed over
warm down
warm over
warm someone's heart
warm the bench
warm the cockles of someone's heart
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: i ngrohtë
lang: Northern Altai
word: чылыг
roman: čïlïg
lang: Northern Altai
word: чылу
roman: čïlu
lang: Southern Altai
word: јылу
roman: ǰïlu
lang: Arabic
word: دَافِئ
roman: dāfiʔ
lang: Arabic
word: دَفِيء
roman: dafīʔ
lang: Armenian
word: ջերմ
roman: ǰerm
lang: Armenian
word: տաք
roman: takʻ
lang: Aromanian
word: caldu
lang: Assamese
word: গৰম
roman: gorom
lang: Avar
word: хинаб
roman: xinab
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ilıq
lang: Bashkir
word: йылы
roman: yılı
lang: Belarusian
word: цёплы
roman: cjóply
lang: Bengali
word: গরম
roman: gorom
lang: Breton
word: tomm
lang: Bulgarian
word: то́пъл
roman: tópǎl
lang: Burmese
word: ပူ
roman: pu
lang: Burmese
word: နွေး
roman: nwe:
lang: Buryat
word: дулаан
roman: dulaan
lang: Catalan
word: calent
lang: Catalan
word: càlid
lang: Cebuano
word: alimuot
lang: Cebuano
word: igang
lang: Chechen
word: мела
roman: mela
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 暖
roman: nyun⁵
lang: Chinese
word: 燒烙 /烧烙
roman: sio-lō
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 暖和
roman: nuǎnhuó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溫暖 /温暖
roman: wēnnuǎn
lang: Chuvash
word: ӑшӑ
roman: ăš̬ă
lang: Czech
word: teplý
lang: Danish
word: varm
lang: Danish
word: lun
lang: Dutch
word: warm
lang: Erzya
word: лембе
roman: lembe
lang: Esperanto
word: varma
lang: Estonian
word: soe
lang: Even
word: ням
roman: ņam
lang: Evenki
word: няма
roman: ņama
lang: Finnish
word: lämmin
lang: Finnish
word: lämpöinen
lang: French
word: chaud
lang: French
word: chaude
lang: North Frisian
word: wārem
lang: West-Frisian
word: waarm
lang: Friulian
word: cjalt
lang: Friulian
word: čhald
lang: Galician
word: quente
lang: Galician
word: morno
lang: Georgian
word: თბილი
roman: tbili
lang: German
word: warm
lang: Greek
word: ζεστός
roman: zestós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θερμός
roman: thermós
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: aku (h-)
lang: Haitian Creole
word: cho
lang: Hebrew
word: חָמִים
roman: khamím
lang: Hebrew
word: חמימה
roman: khamimá
lang: Higaonon
word: madagadang
lang: Hindi
word: गरम
roman: garam
lang: Hindi
word: गर्म
roman: garm
lang: White Hmong
word: kub
lang: White Hmong
word: sov
lang: Hungarian
word: meleg
lang: Icelandic
word: hlýr
lang: Indonesian
word: hangat
lang: Indonesian
word: panas
lang: Ingrian
word: lämmää
lang: Ingrian
word: sooja
lang: Ingush
word: мела
roman: mela
lang: Interlingua
word: calide
lang: Interlingua
word: calorose
lang: Irish
word: te
lang: Italian
word: caldo
lang: Iu Mien
word: siouv
lang: Japanese
word: 暖かい
roman: atatakai
lang: Japanese
word: 温かい
roman: atatakai
lang: Japanese
word: ホカホカ
roman: Hokahoka
lang: Javanese
word: anget
lang: Old Javanese
word: hangĕt
lang: Old Javanese
word: panas
lang: Jingpho
word: lum
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: kenti
lang: Kalmyk
word: дулан
roman: dulan
lang: Kashubian
word: cepły
lang: Kazakh
word: жылы
roman: jyly
lang: Khmer
word: ក្ដៅ
roman: kdaw
lang: Korean
word: 따뜻하다
roman: ttatteuthada
lang: Kott
word: fal
lang: Kott
word: phal
lang: Central Kurdish
word: گەرم
roman: germ
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: germ
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жылуу
roman: jıluu
lang: Ladino
word: kayente
lang: Lao
word: ອຸ່ນ
roman: ʼun
lang: Lao
word: ອົບອຸ່ນ
roman: ʼop ʼun
lang: Latgalian
word: sylts
lang: Latin
word: calidus
lang: Latin
word: caleō
lang: Latin
word: formus
lang: Latvian
word: silts
lang: Lithuanian
word: šiltas
lang: Lithuanian
word: šilta
lang: Lombard
word: cald
lang: Luxembourgish
word: waarm
lang: Luxembourgish
word: wuarm
lang: Macedonian
word: топол
roman: topol
lang: Malay
word: hangat
lang: Malay
word: suam
lang: Malay
word: panas
lang: Malayalam
word: ഊഷ്മള
roman: ūṣmaḷa
lang: Manchu
word: ᠪᡠᠯᡠᡴᠠᠨ
roman: bulukan
lang: Northern Mansi
word: ма̄лтып
roman: māltyp
lang: Northern Mansi
word: лоньсиӈ
roman: lonʹsiň
lang: Māori
word: mahana
lang: Māori
word: pūmahana
lang: Māori
word: pūwerawera
lang: Māori
word: pūwera
lang: Māori
word: pūāhuru
lang: Māori
word: āhuru
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: so
lang: Mizo
word: lum
lang: Mòcheno
word: bòrm
lang: Mongolian
word: дулаан
roman: dulaan
lang: Mongolian
word: дулаахан
roman: dulaaxan
lang: Nanai
word: няма
roman: njama
lang: Norman
word: caûd
lang: Norn
word: øni
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: varm
lang: Occitan
word: caud
lang: Odia
word: ଗରମ
roman: garama
lang: Church Slavic
word: топлъ
roman: toplŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: теплъ
roman: teplŭ
lang: Old English
word: wearm
lang: Ossetian
word: хъарм
roman: qarm
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: цепли
roman: cepli
lang: Papiamentu
word: kayente
lang: Iranian Persian
word: گَرْم
roman: garm
lang: Polish
word: ciepły
lang: Portuguese
word: morno
lang: Portuguese
word: quente
lang: Quechua
word: q’uñi
lang: Rapa Nui
word: hana
lang: Rawang
word: lø̀m
lang: Romani
word: tato
lang: Romanian
word: cald
lang: Romanian
word: caldă
lang: Romansh
word: chaud
lang: Russian
word: тёплый
roman: tjóplyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: liekkas
lang: Samoan
word: mafanafana
lang: Sanskrit
word: उष्ण
roman: uṣṇa
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: buddiu
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: basca
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: callenti
lang: Sardinian
word: caente
lang: Sardinian
word: callente
lang: Sardinian
word: buddiu
lang: Sardinian
word: caldu
lang: Sassarese
word: caldu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: blàth
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: то̏пао
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȍpao
lang: Sicilian
word: càudu
lang: Slovak
word: teplý
lang: Slovene
word: topel
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: śopły
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: ćopły
lang: Spanish
word: cálido
lang: Spanish
word: caluroso
lang: Spanish
word: calentito
lang: Spanish
word: calientito
lang: Sundanese
word: warm
lang: Swedish
word: varm
lang: Tagalog
word: mainit
lang: Tajik
word: гарм
roman: garm
lang: Talysh
word: گرم
roman: garm
lang: Tamil
word: இதமாக
roman: itamāka
lang: Tamil
word: இதமான
roman: itamāṉa
lang: Tatar
word: җылы
roman: cılı
lang: Telugu
word: వెచ్చని
roman: veccani
lang: Ternate
word: sahu
lang: Tetum
word: manas
lang: Thai
word: อุ่น
roman: ùn
lang: Tidore
word: sahu
lang: Tocharian B
word: tāpce
lang: Tocharian B
word: emalle
lang: Tongan
word: māfana
lang: Tupinambá
word: akub (s-)
lang: Turkish
word: ılık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صیجاق
roman: sıcak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ایصی
roman: ısı, ıssı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حرارتلو
roman: hararetli
lang: Turkmen
word: ýyly
lang: Udmurt
word: шуныт
roman: šunyt
lang: Ukrainian
word: те́плий
roman: téplyj
lang: Urdu
word: گَرْم
roman: garm
lang: Uyghur
word: ئىلمان
roman: ilman
lang: Uyghur
word: ئىسسىق
roman: issiq
lang: Uzbek
word: iliq
lang: Uzbek
word: issiq
lang: Venetan
word: calt
lang: Vietnamese
word: ấm
lang: Võro
word: lämmi
lang: Welsh
word: cynnes
lang: Yiddish
word: וואַרעם
roman: varem
lang: Zazaki
word: germ (diq)
lang: Zealandic
word: waerm
lang: Armenian
word: ջերմ
roman: ǰerm
lang: Armenian
word: տաք
roman: takʻ
lang: Breton
word: tomm
lang: Breton
word: klouar
lang: Catalan
word: calorós
lang: Catalan
word: càlid
lang: Czech
word: teplý
lang: Danish
word: varm
lang: Dutch
word: warm
lang: Finnish
word: lämmin
lang: French
word: chaleureux
lang: French
word: chaleureuse
lang: Hebrew
word: חָמִים
roman: khamím
lang: Hebrew
word: חמימה
roman: khamimá
lang: Indonesian
word: hangat
lang: Interlingua
word: cordial
lang: Irish
word: te
lang: Italian
word: caldo
lang: Italian
word: caloroso
lang: Italian
word: cordiale
lang: Japanese
word: 暖かい
roman: atatakai
lang: Japanese
word: 温かい
roman: atatakai
lang: Latin
word: calidus
lang: Latin
word: caleo
lang: Latvian
word: silts
lang: Luxembourgish
word: waarm
lang: Luxembourgish
word: wuarm
lang: Polish
word: ciepły
lang: Portuguese
word: morno
lang: Rapa Nui
word: hana
lang: Romanian
word: cald
lang: Romanian
word: caldă
lang: Russian
word: тёплый
roman: tjóplyj
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: buddiu
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: basca
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: callenti
lang: Sardinian
word: caente
lang: Sardinian
word: callente
lang: Sardinian
word: buddiu
lang: Sardinian
word: caldu
lang: Sassarese
word: caldu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: blàth
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: то̏пао
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tȍpao
lang: Slovak
word: teplý
lang: Telugu
word: వెచ్చని
roman: veccani
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صیجاق
roman: sıcak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ایصی
roman: ısı, ıssı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حرارتلو
roman: hararetli