calorifero
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French calorifère (“heater, radiator”), adaptation made using Latin calor (“warmth, heat; glow”) + -fer (“-bearing, -carrying, -bringing”). By surface analysis, from calori- + -fero.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calorifero m (plural caloriferi)
- radiator (household radiator)
- Synonyms: termosifone, radiatore
Further reading
[edit]- calorifero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- calorifero in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from French
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms prefixed with calori-
- Italian terms suffixed with -fero
- Italian 5-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ifero
- Rhymes:Italian/ifero/5 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns