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[stohv] 
,noun, verb, stoved, stov⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power. |
| 2. | a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove. |
Origin:
1425–75; (n.) late ME: sweat bath, heated room, prob. < MD, MLG, c. OE stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, OHG stuba (G Stube room; cf. bierstube ), ON stofa; early Gmc borrowing < VL *extupa, *extūpa (> F étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. stew 1 ), n. deriv. of *extūpāre, *extūfāre to fill with vapor, equiv. to L ex- ex- 1 + VL *-tūfāre < Gk tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever (see typhus ); alternatively explained as a native Gmc base, borrowed into Rom (cf. izba ); (v.) late ME stoven to subject to hot-air bath, deriv. of the n.
1425–75; (n.) late ME: sweat bath, heated room, prob. < MD, MLG, c. OE stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, OHG stuba (G Stube room; cf. bierstube ), ON stofa; early Gmc borrowing < VL *extupa, *extūpa (> F étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. stew 1 ), n. deriv. of *extūpāre, *extūfāre to fill with vapor, equiv. to L ex- ex- 1 + VL *-tūfāre < Gk tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever (see typhus ); alternatively explained as a native Gmc base, borrowed into Rom (cf. izba ); (v.) late ME stoven to subject to hot-air bath, deriv. of the n.
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