vapor
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor (plural vapors)
- Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
- The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
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2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
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Translations[edit]
steam — see steam
the gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid
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Verb[edit]
vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored)
- (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
- (transitive) To turn into vapor.
- (intransitive) To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:
- He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1, [1]
- […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Bisara of Pooree’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2005, p. 172:
Translations[edit]
intransitive: to become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor
transitive: to turn into vapor
intransitive: to use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (plural vapores)
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (plural vapors)
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (plural vapores)
Synonyms[edit]
- (vapor): gas
Ladino[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (Latin spelling)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, but possibly related to Ancient Greek καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *kʷep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar.[1] See also hope.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension
Inflection[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vapor | vapōrēs |
| genitive | vapōris | vapōrum |
| dative | vapōrī | vapōribus |
| accusative | vapōrem | vapōrēs |
| ablative | vapōre | vapōribus |
| vocative | vapor | vapōrēs |
Synonyms[edit]
- (warmth): calor
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- vapor in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vapor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vapor in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ^ Coloarusso, Further Etymologies Between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor f (oblique plural vapors, nominative singular vapor, nominative plural vapors)
- Alternative form of vapeur
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɐ.ˈpoɾ/
- (Paulista) IPA(key): /va.ˈpoɹ/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /va.ˈpoɻ/
- (Carioca) IPA(key): /va.ˈpox/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /va.ˈpo/
- Hyphenation: va‧por
Noun[edit]
vapor m (plural vapores)
Anagrams[edit]
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian vapore, French vapeur.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor n (plural vapoare)
Declension[edit]
declension of vapor
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) vapor | vaporul | (niște) vapoare | vapoarele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) vapor | vaporului | (unor) vapoare | vapoarelor |
| vocative | vaporule | vapoarelor | ||
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vapor m (plural vapores)
- steam, vapor (water vapor)
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