calorifère
Appearance
See also: calorifere
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin calor (“heat”) + -fère.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calorifère m (plural calorifères)
- (dated outside Quebec) heater, radiator
- 1924, Emmanuel Bove, Mes Amis[1]:
- La chambre de Blanche était en désordre. Un mouchoir séchait sur le calorifère. Une chemise pendait à la clef d’un placard.
- Blanche's room was a mess. A handkerchief was drying on the heater. A shirt was hanging from a cupboard key.
Descendants
[edit]- → English: calorifere
- → German: Kalorifer
- → Polish: kaloryfer
- → Ottoman Turkish: قالوریفر (kalorifer)
- Turkish: kalorifer
Further reading
[edit]- “calorifère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.