Hitze

See also: hitze

German

Etymology

From Middle High German hitze, from Old High German hizza, from Proto-Germanic *hitjō (“heat”); see *haitį̄. Cognate with Dutch hitte. Also related with English heat.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: Hit‧ze
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪtsə/

Noun

Hitze f (genitive Hitze, plural (rare) Hitzen)

1. heat

Usage notes

• The plural is rare, and only found in technical contexts.

Declension

Declension of Hitze [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Hitze	die	Hitzen1
genitive	einer	der	Hitze	der	Hitzen1
dative	einer	der	Hitze	den	Hitzen1
accusative	eine	die	Hitze	die	Hitzen1

¹Rare.

Derived terms

• erhitzen
• hitzen
• hitzig
• überhitzen
• Gluthitze (“searing heat”)

Descendants

• → Kashubian: hëc
• → Silesian: hica

Further reading

• “Hitze” in Duden online
• “Hitze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• J. C. Adelung (1793–1801) “Hitze”, in Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart (in German), 2nd edition