warm

Meaning

Adj

1. Of a somewhat high temperature.
2. Friendly and with affection.
3. Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
4. (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
7. Ardent, zealous.
8. (informal) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
9. Requiring arduous effort.

Verb

1. To make or keep warm.
2. To become warm, to heat up.
3. (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
4. To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
5. To become ardent or animated.
6. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
7. To give emotional warmth to a person.
8. (colloquial) To beat or spank.
9. (colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
10. To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.

Noun

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɔːm/

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:
# Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma).
# Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite [script needed] (warnuzi) and to Old Church Slavonic варити (variti).
The dispute is due to differing opinions on how initial Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰ- evolved in Germanic: some think that *gʷʰ would have turned to *b, and that the root *gʷʰer- would instead have given rise to burn etc. Some have also proposed a merger of the two roots.

Sentences

It was a very warm october.