Tepefaction
/ˌtɛpɪˈfækʃən/noun
The act or process of making something warm.
Did you know?Tepefaction belongs to a family of learned words built from Latin tepēre, “to be warm,” the same source behind “tepid.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*tep-
“To be warm or become hot”
Classical Latin
Latin
tepēre
“To be warm; to be lukewarm”
Classical Latin
Latin
tepēfacere
“To make warm, from tepēre “be warm” and facere “make””
Late Latin
Latin
tepēfactiō
“A warming or making warm”
17th Century
English
tepefaction
“The act of warming or making warm”
Modern English
English
tepefaction
“The process of producing warmth”