étuve

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.tyv/

Inherited from Middle French

Inherited from Old French

Cognate with Occitan

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In summary

Inherited from Middle French estuve, from Old French estuve. According to the Trésor de la Langue Française, from a Vulgar Latin *extupa, from a verb *extupāre, from ex- + *tupāre, from Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). This word may have originally entered southern Gaul via Marseille before the Roman conquest. Alternatively Old French estuve (“room for steam baths”) derives from Vulgar Latin *stuba (whence Occitan estuba), from Frankish *stuba (“room, heated room”), from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, heated room, living room”). Cognate with Old High German stupa, stuba (German Stube (“room”)), Old English stofa, stofu (“bathroom, bathhouse”), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”) and Danish and Norwegian stue). More at stove.