stove

Meaning

Noun

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
3. A stovetop, with hotplates.
4. A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
5. A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

Verb

1. To heat or dry, as in a stove.
2. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

Verb

simple past and past participle of stave

Concepts

stove

oven

furnace

fireplace

cooker

kiln

range

heater

hearth

kitchen stove

cooking stove

kitchen range

large

grate

cooking stones

burner

cook-stove

hob

cookstove

heating stove

brazier

toaster

fire-place

hothouse

greenhouse

big

cuisine

kitchen

fabric

fire pot

batch

burners

heat

dry

drying

oven dry

oven drying

oven-dried

stoving

baking furnace

drier

dry furnace

drying oven

ovcn

barbecue pit

charcoal burner

ash

cooking place

cast-iron stove

iron

metal

steel

with oven

fire

electric stove

galley

warmer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stəʊv/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu, *stubō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Doublet of stufa.