swelter

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
2. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
3. (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.

Noun

Intense heat.

Sinónimos

sweat

😓

sultriness

perspire

suffocate

heat

perspiration

be hot

be sultry

bake

be stifling

fry

glow

hot

🥵

hotness

Traducións

calor sofocante

sufocar-se

regalimar

estar xop

rostir-se

verschmachten

fast ersticken vor Wärme

ιδρώνω

ασφυκτιώ

καυσώνω

σκάω

étouffer

afa

smoren

suar

😓

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈswɛl.tə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: swelteren

Herdado de Middle English: swelten

Herdado de Old English: sweltan

In summary

From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).