Etymograph

English

calorize

Calorize comes from Latin calor ‘heat’, from caleō ‘to be warm, hot’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱleh₁-‘to be hot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱl̥h₁éh₁yetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kalēōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcaleō‘to be warm, hot’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalor‘heat’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1927calorize

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱleh₁-‘to be hot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱl̥h₁éh₁yetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kalēōreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcaleō‘to be warm, hot’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalor‘heat’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1927calorize

Earliest quotation: 1927, United States National Bureau of Standar, Light metals and alloys: Aluminum. Magnesium: “He finds that materials that have been mechanically worked…”

Formed from -ize

Linked words

through Latin caleō ‘to be warm, hot’

scald, 18 more

Today it means

verb To form a protective surface on (a ferrous metal) by coating with aluminum powder and then heating.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱleh₁- / calorize

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