thermos

English

Etymology 1

Genericization of the trademark Thermos, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”).

Alternative forms

• Thermos

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː.mɒs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝ.məs/

Noun

thermos (plural thermoses or (rare) thermoi)

1. A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents

Synonyms

• thermal flask
• thermos flask
• vacuum flask

Descendants

• → Dhivehi: ތަރުމޯޒު (tarumōzu)

Translations

vacuum flask

• Arabic: تِرْمُس m (tirmus)

  Hijazi Arabic: ترمس m (turmus, tirmus)

• Armenian: թերմոս (hy) (tʻermos)
• Azerbaijani: termos
• Belarusian: тэ́рмас m (térmas)
• Bulgarian: те́рмос m (térmos)
• Catalan: termos m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 暖壺／暖壶 (nyun⁵ wu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 熱水瓶／热水瓶 (zh) (rèshuǐpíng), 暖瓶 (zh) (nuǎnpíng), 暖壺／暖壶 (zh) (nuǎnhú)

• Czech: termoska (cs) f, termoláhev f
• Esperanto: termoso, termobotelo, izolkruĉo, varmobotelo
• Finnish: termospullo (fi), termos (fi)
• French: thermos (fr) m
• Georgian: თერმოსი (ka) (termosi)
• German: Thermoskanne (de) f
• Greek: θερμός (el) n (thermós)
• Hindi: थरमस (hi) (tharmas)
• Hungarian: termosz (hu)
• Indonesian: termos (id)
• Italian: termos m
• Japanese: 魔法瓶 (ja) (まほうびん, mahōbin)
• Kazakh: термос (termos)
• Korean: 보온병(保溫甁) (ko) (boonbyeong)
• Kyrgyz: термос (ky) (termos)
• Latvian: termoss m, termospudele f
• Lithuanian: termosas m
• Macedonian: термос (termos)
• Marathi: थरमॉस m (tharmŏs)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халуун сав (xaluun sav)

• Ossetian: термос (termos)
• Persian: فلاسک (fa) (felâsk)
• Polish: termos (pl) m
• Portuguese: garrafa térmica (pt) f
• Russian: те́рмос (ru) m (tɛ́rmos)
• Slovak: termoska f
• Spanish: termo (es) m
• Swahili: chupa ombwe
• Swedish: termos (sv) c
• Turkish: termos (tr)
• Ukrainian: те́рмос m (térmos)
• Uyghur: چايدان (ug) (chaydan), تېرموس (tërmos)
• Uzbek: termos (uz)
• Vietnamese: phích (vi), bình thuỷ (vi)
• Welsh: Thermos m or f, fflasg thermos f, fflasg wactod f

See also

• dewar

Further reading

• thermos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek θέρμος (thérmos).

Noun

thermos (plural thermoi)

1. (historical) A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.
   • 1982, “Metrology (3455–3460)”, in A[dam] Bülow-Jacobsen, J[ohn] E[dwin] G[eorge] Whitehorne, editors, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Graeco-Roman Memoirs; No. 69), volume XLIX, […] for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, […], →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 101, 104, and 105:

     The mnaeion contains 4 gold pieces, 16 quarters, 64 thermoi, 128 carats. The gold piece contains 4 staters [sic for quarters], 16 thermoi, 32 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats. The quarter contains 4 thermoi, 8 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats. […] The mnaeion has sixteen (16) quarters and the quarter has 6 thermoi, twelve (12) carats. The thermos has 2 carats, so that the mnaeion consists of 96 thermoi, 192 carats. The mnaeion weighs 8 drachmas, the quarter three obols, the thermos one-half obol, the carat 2 chalci. […] Thermoi of 2 and of 1½ siliquae are attested in metrological writings (MSR II 180, s.v. θέρμοϲ); ½ ob. per thermus^[sic] in 18 implies the lighter weight, as 1 ob. = 3 sil. […] The mnaeion has 16 quarters and the quarter has (4 or 6) thermoi…

   • 2005, Lawrence H[arvey] Schiffman, “Sacrificial Halakhah in the Fragments of the Aramaic Levi Document from Qumran, the Cairo Genizah, and Mt. Athos Monastery”, in Esther G[lickler] Chazon, Devorah Dimant, Ruth A[nne] Clements, editors, Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran: […], Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 199:

     1 saton (seʾah) = 1/3 ephah (see above for correction) = 2/3 bath / mina by weight = 50 shekels / ¼ shekel = 4 thermoi / shekel = 16 thermoi and one weight (?)

   • 2013, James R. Davila, “Aramaic Levi”, in Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, Alex Panayotov, editors, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, volume one, Grand Rapids, Mich., Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 138:

     A third of a seah is a third of an ephah, and two-thirds of a bath, and the weight of a mina is fifty of shekels, and a quarter of a shekel is the weight of four thermoi.^g Let the shekel be about sixteen thermoi and of one weight. […] g. “thermoi”—A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.

Anagrams

• Mothers, smother, moth-ers, mothers

French

Etymology

Genericized trademark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛʁ.mos/, /tɛʁ.mɔs/

Noun

thermos m (plural thermos)

1. thermos

Further reading

• “thermos”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.