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English

Alternative forms

• vapour (British)

Etymology

From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ve?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ve?p?/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)

Noun

vapor (plural vapors) (American spelling)

1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid.
3. Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.
4. (dated) Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brit. Pharm to this entry?)

5. (archaic, in the plural) Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder.
   • Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift

     He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week

6. (obsolete) Wind; flatulence.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

vapor (third-person singular simple present vapors, present participle vaporing, simple past and past participle vapored) (American spelling)

1. (intransitive) To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor.
2. (transitive) To turn into vapor.

   to vapor away a heated fluid

   • 1617, Ben Jonson, Lovers Made Men

     He'd […] laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul.

3. To emit vapor or fumes.
4. (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.

   • 1904, “Saki”, ‘Reginald's Christmas Revel’, Reginald:

     then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1, [1]

     […] an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered […] vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 513:

     He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.

5. (transitive) To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.9:

     “I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”

Translations

See also

• dew point
• get the vapors

Anagrams

• parvo, parvo-

Albanian

Etymology

From vapë (“hot weather”) +? -or noun suffix.

Noun

vapor ?

1. steamboat

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??po/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b??po/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /va?po?/

Noun

vapor m (plural vapors)

1. vapor, steam

Derived terms

• cavall de vapor

Further reading

• “vapor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor

Synonyms

• (vapor): gas

Further reading

• “vapor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ladino

Noun

vapor m (Latin spelling)

1. ship, steamer

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly related to Ancient Greek ?????? (kapnós, “smoke”) and Proto-Indo-European *k?ep- (“to smoke, boil, move violently”), via an older form *quapor that eventually lost its velar. See also hope.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a.por/, [?u?äp?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.por/, [?v??p?r]

Noun

vapor m (genitive vap?ris); third declension

1. steam, exhalation, vapour; smoke
2. warm exhalation, warmth, heat
3. ardour of love, warmth

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (warmth): calor

Derived terms

Related terms

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

Middle English

Noun

vapor

1. Alternative form of vapour

Old French

Noun

vapor f (oblique plural vapors, nominative singular vapor, nominative plural vapors)

1. Alternative form of vapeur

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vapur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?pur/

Noun

vapor m (plural vapor)

1. vapor, steam

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v?.?po?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /va.?po?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?po?/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /va.?pox/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.?po/
• Hyphenation: va?por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. vapor / vapour

Derived terms

• a todo vapor

Anagrams

• prova, pavor

Further reading

• “vapor” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian vapore, French vapeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?por/

Noun

vapor n (plural vapoare)

1. boat, ship

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vapor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?po?/, [ba?po?]
• Rhymes: -o?
• Hyphenation: va?por

Noun

vapor m (plural vapores)

1. steam, vapor (water vapor)

Derived terms

Related terms

• vaporera

Further reading

• “vapor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• vapoury (UK)

Etymology

From vapor +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ve?p??i/

Adjective

vapory (comparative more vapory, superlative most vapory)

1. Resembling vapor; vaporous.
   • 1792, William Pine, General Proofs that the Second Advent of the Lord hath Taken Place, and also, the Essential Doctrines of His New Kingdom Stated, Bristol: self-published, p. 14, [1]

     But here again, Christians consider the word literally, as though the Lord would appear upon the vapory clouds over our heads.

   • 1800, Rosewell Messenger, A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. James Boyd at Bangor on Penobscot River, September 10, 1800, pp. 24-5, [2]

     The greatest damps however, that may ever roll upon your spirits, will arise from the stupidity of sinners, and the vapory dullness of declining Christians.

   • 1858, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish, I, 54-55, [3]

     Long at the window he stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape, / Washed with a cold gray mist, the vapory breath of the east-wind,

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 22, [4]

     At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East, was shot thro' with a soft glory as of the fleece of the Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, […]

   See also quotations under vapoury.

2. Characterized by the presence of vapor; full of, or obscured by, vapor.
   • 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘King Pest’:

     The most fetid and poisonous smells everywhere prevailed; and by the aid of that ghastly light which, even at midnight, never fails to emanate from a vapory and pestilential atmosphere, might be discerned lying in the by-paths and alleys, or rotting in the windowless habitations, the carcass of many a nocturnal plunderer arrested by the hand of the plague in the very perpetration of his robbery.