warm

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a warm manner

   warmly dressed

2. 2
   adj

   uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble

   made things warm for the bookies

3. 3
   adj

   characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement

   a warm debate

4. 4
   adj

   freshly made or left

   a warm trail

5. 5
   adj

   having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

   a warm body

6. 6
   verb

   make warm or warmer

   The blanket will warm you

7. 7
   verb

   get warm or warmer

   The soup warmed slowly on the stove

8. 8
   adj

   Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.

   The tea is still warm.

Etymology

From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), or Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur, Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (in which case perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá), or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”),…