lukewarm

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The   album   met with   lukewarm   reviews   and   sales and   breakup   rumors   swirled .

L'album ha incontrato recensioni e vendite tiepide e le voci di rottura hanno turbinato.

Senso (Inglese)

  1. Between warm and cool.
  2. Unenthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˌluːkˈwɔːm/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) + warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from Old English hlēow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hlēwaz, *hlūmaz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lau (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), dialectal Swedish ljummen (“lukewarm”).

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