English
transcalent
Transcalent comes from Latin calens ‘being warm or hot, glowing’, and goes back to calere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalere‘to grow warm’next step skipped: Latin caleō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalens‘being warm or hot, glowing’present participle of calere
- Englishtodaytranscalent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalere‘to grow warm’next step skipped: Latin caleō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalens‘being warm or hot, glowing’present participle of calere
- Englishtodaytranscalent
Every English word from Latin calere
Today it means
adj Permitting heat to pass through; conductive to heat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin calere / transcalent