adj
Meaning 1
warming
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
calefactory
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rhymes with -æktəɹi
noun
Meaning 2
The room or building in a monastery holding its communal fire, kept warm and used as a sitting room.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: common house, warming house, warming room, pisalis, pyrale
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A warming pan, or similar device used by a priest to warm his hands
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
serving to heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a heating pad is calefactory
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calefactive
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
* Borrowed from Latin calefactorius.
* Borrowed from Medieval Latin calefactorium.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: стоплящ (stopljašt) — warming
- Bulgarian: затоплящ (zatopljašt) — warming
- Bulgarian: отоплителен (otoplitelen) — warming
- French: caléfactoire — warming
- Latin: calefactorius — warming
- Catalan: calefactori — warming room
- Dutch: calefactorium — warming room
- French: chauffoir — warming room
- French: caléfactoire — warming room
- German: Wärmestube — warming room
- German: Kalefaktorium — warming room
- Italian: calefattorio — warming room
- Latin: calefactorium — warming room
- Spanish: calefactorio — warming room
- Swedish: calefactorium — warming room