stove

A2 Topic:Cooking & Baking

US /stoʊv/ UK /stəʊv/ See IPA manual

Freq #6550

Meanings

1

noun
A kitchen appliance with burners used for cooking food.

Dinner was already cooking on the stove.
2

noun
A closed device that burns fuel to heat a room.

They lit the wood stove to warm the cabin.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a kitchen appliance with... range

Word family

Forms stoves

Derived forms campstovecocklestovecookstoveoilstovestove-topstovefulstovehousestovelessstovelikestovemakerstovemakingstovepipe

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Phrases (1)

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hot stove
a stove whose surface has become very warm from cooking

Adjective + noun

Simplified etymology

Stove entered Middle English with the meaning of a heated sweating room in a steam bath. It may be related to Old French estuve, the source of stew, which was probably based on Greek tuphos, meaning smoke or steam.

Etymology

From 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”…

stove Middle Dutch *stubu Proto-West Germanic *extūfa la-vul ex- Latin τῦφος Ancient Greek

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Topics

Cooking & Baking Food & Drink

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# stove

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /stoʊv/
**IPA (UK):** /stəʊv/
**Frequency rank:** 6550

## Meanings
1. A kitchen appliance with burners used for cooking food.
2. A closed device that burns fuel to heat a room.

## Examples
- Dinner was already cooking on the stove.
- They lit the wood stove to warm the cabin.

## Derived Forms
- campstove
- cocklestove
- cookstove
- oilstove
- stove-top
- stoveful
- stovehouse
- stoveless
- stovelike
- stovemaker
- stovemaking
- stovepipe

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: stove
- Root: *stubu
- Root: *extūfa
- Root: ex-
- Root: τῦφος

## Etymology
From 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”…

## AI Etymology
Stove is from 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”).

## Topics
- Cooking & Baking
- Food & Drink

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