/stəʊv/, /stoʊv/, /sʈəʋ/
OriginFrom Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. 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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)).
Doublet of stufa.
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
“1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309.
[I]n the countries of modern E”
“We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.”
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- A stovetop, with hotplates.
- UKA hothouse (heated greenhouse).
“There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the”
“Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfectio”
- datedA house or room artificially warmed or heated.
“April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy
When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Compa”
“How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!”
- transitiveTo heat or dry, as in a stove.
“to stove feathers”
“The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.”
- transitiveTo keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
“to stove orange trees”
“orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved”
- transitiveTo jam; to sprain.
- form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of stave
“[A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.”
“"A dead whale or a stove boat!"”
“"Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din / but with one fat ball, the Yank stove us in."”
Formsstoves(plural) · stoves(present, singular, third-person) · stoving(participle, present) · stoved(participle, past) · stoved(past)