vapor
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈveɪpə/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪpə(r)
Noun
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.
- 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- 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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Derived terms
Translations
the gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid
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Verb
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,
- […] 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
intransitive: to become vapor — see evaporate
transitive: to turn into vapor — see vaporize
See also
Albanian
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwa.por/, [ˈwa.pɔr]
Noun
vapor m (genitive vapōris); third declension
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | vapor | vapōrēs |
Genitive | vapōris | vapōrum |
Dative | vapōrī | vapōribus |
Accusative | vapōrem | vapōrēs |
Ablative | vapōre | vapōribus |
Vocative | vapor | vapōrēs |
Synonyms
- (warmth): calor
Derived terms
- vapidus
- vapōrālis
- vapōrārium
- vapōrifer
Descendants
References
- vapor in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Colarusso, Further Etymologies Between Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian
Middle English
Old French
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (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
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaˈpor/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [baˈpoɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
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