different between routine vs lukewarm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?u??ti?n/

Noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Synonym: rut
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

   Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine

Derived terms

• routiner

Translations

Adjective

routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Derived terms

• routinely

Translations

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.tin/

Noun

routine f (plural routines)

1. routine (all senses)
2. (Louisiana, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish) road

Derived terms

• prendre sa routine à volonté

Descendants

Further reading

• “routine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ouïrent

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Noun

routine f (invariable)

1. routine
2. rut

Derived terms

• routinario

Anagrams

• rutenio, uterino

Further reading

• routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Etymology

From Middle English leukwarm, lukewarm (“lukewarm, tepid”), equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) +? warm. Compare Saterland Frisian luukwoarm (“lukewarm”), German Low German luukwarm (“lukewarm”),German lauwarm (“lukewarm”). First element believed to be an alteration of Middle English lew (“tepid”) (> English dialectal lew), from Old English hl?ow (“warm, sunny”), from Proto-Germanic *hliwjaz, *hl?waz, *hl?maz, *hleumaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *?al(w)e-, *?el(w)e-, *k(')l?w- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Dutch lauw (“tepid”), German lauwarm (“lukewarm”), Faroese lýggjur (“warm”), Swedish ljum (“lukewarm”), ljummen (“lukewarm”) and ly (“warm”), Danish lummer (“muggy”), Danish and Norwegian lunken (“tepid”), dialectal Swedish ljummen (“lukewarm”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)m
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?k?w??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?luk?w??m/, /?luk.w??m/

Adjective

lukewarm (comparative lukewarmer or more lukewarm, superlative lukewarmest or most lukewarm)

1. (temperature) Between warm and cool.

2. Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea).

Synonyms

• lew (dialect)
• luke (rare)
• tepid

Derived terms

• lukecold

Translations