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calefactory

calefactory

9.9
Making heat to warm a room or place
  • adjective
  • Archaic
translation icon : calefactor
  • Many homes once had a calefactory chamber for drying clothes and storing fuel.

Examples

  • A calefactory device can help maintain consistent temperature in a greenhouse.

  • We installed a new calefactory unit last winter.

  • The old monastery still had a calefactory where the monks could warm themselves in winter.

  • The calefactory system in this building is very efficient.

  • A calefactory device can help maintain consistent temperature in a greenhouse.

  • Many homes once had a calefactory chamber for drying clothes and storing fuel.

  • The old monastery still had a calefactory where the monks could warm themselves in winter.

Synonyms

calefactive
vscalefactory
  • Archaic
9.9

Producing heat to make things warm

is the alternative form with the same heating meaning
calorific
vscalefactory
  • Specialized
7.4

Producing heat or able to produce heat

is a general term for serving to provide heat rather than ability
calefacient
vscalefactory
  • Specialized
9.9

Causes the skin to feel warm when put on

is broader, meaning heating generally rather than just bodily warming

How Warming

scorching
3.7
calefactory
  • Archaic
9.9
warming
1.3
heating
23 1.0

Surface Forms

calefactory positive

Morphology

calefactory = calefactor (opaque) = calefact + ory

The root 'calefact' is a Latin combining form not recognizable to average learners, so the relation to the meaning 'produce heat' is not transparently derivable from known English bases.

Etymology

Calefactory comes from an old Latin word calefacere, which means 'to make warm', and is like the word calorie, from calor 'heat'. So a calefactory is something that makes or provides heat.