warmとは

語源 1

From Middle English warm, werm, from 古期英語 wearm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, with different proposed origins:

1. Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”), related to Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharma).
2. 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.

形容詞

warm (comparative warmer, superlative warmest)

1. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.

   The tea is still warm.

   This is a very warm room.

   • Longfellow

     Warm and still is the summer night.

   • 1985, Robert Ferro, Blue Star

     It seemed I was too excited for sleep, too warm, too young.

2. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.

   We have a warm friendship.

3. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
4. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
   • Black

     Here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm", as children say at blindman's buff.

5. (figuratively) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness

   a warm piano sound

6. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.

   a warm debate, with strong words exchanged

   • Milton

     Mirth, and youth, and warm desire!

   • Alexander Pope

     Each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

   • Addison

     They say he's a warm man and does not care to be made mouths at.

   • Hawthorne

     I had been none of the warmest of partisans.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 1

     To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

7. (archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
   • Washington Irving

     warm householders, every one of them

   • Goldsmith

     You shall have a draft upon him, payable at sight: and let me tell you he as warm a man as any within five miles round him.

8. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
   • 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)

     The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:warm
• See also Thesaurus:affectionate
• See also Thesaurus:difficult

反意語

• (mild temperature): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen
• (caring): Arctic, cold, cool, frozen

派生語

参考

• heated
• hot
• steamy
• temperature
• tepid

語源 2

From 古期英語 werman.

動詞

warm (三人称単数 現在形 warms, 現在分詞 warming, 過去形および過去分詞形 warmed)

1. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
   • Bible, Isaiah xliv. 15

     Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.

   • Longfellow

     enough to warm, but not enough to burn

2. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.

   My socks are warming by the fire.

   The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.

3. (intransitive) To favour increasingly.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.

   He is warming to the idea.

   Her classmates are gradually warming to her.

4. To become ardent or animated.

   The speaker warms as he proceeds.

5. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
   • Alexander Pope

     I formerly warmed my head with reading controversial writings.

   • Keble

     Bright hopes, that erst bosom warmed.

派生語

• like death warmed over

名詞

warm (複数形 warms)

1. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)

   Shall I give your coffee a warm in the microwave?