"hypocaust" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hypocausts [plural]
Etymology: From Latin hypocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “underneath”) + καίειν (kaíein, “to light a fire, burn”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|hypocaustum}} Latin hypocaustum, {{uder|en|grc|ὑπό||underneath}} Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “underneath”), {{m|grc|καίειν||to light a fire, burn}} καίειν (kaíein, “to light a fire, burn”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} hypocaust (plural hypocausts)
  1. An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
    Sense id: en-hypocaust-en-noun-TL3sOFAZ
  2. An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted for modern housing. Categories (topical): Architecture Synonyms (heating system): floor heating, underfloor heating Translations (underground heating system for a bath): hipocaust [masculine] (Catalan), hypokausti (Finnish), hypocauste [masculine] (French), Hypokaustum [neuter] (German), Hypokauste [feminine] (German), Heizgewölbe [neuter] (German), ipocausto [masculine] (Italian), ハイポコースト (haipokōsuto) (Japanese), 고래 (gorae) (Korean), 온돌 (ondol) (Korean), 구들 (gudeul) (Korean), 구돌 (gudol) [obsolete] (Korean), hypocaustum [neuter] (Latin), hypocauston [neuter] (Latin), гипока́уст (gipokáust) [masculine] (Russian), hipocausto (Spanish), hypokaust [common-gender] (Swedish), hipokaust (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-hypocaust-en-noun-2WXD~0sG Disambiguation of Architecture: 14 86 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 23 77 Disambiguation of 'heating system': 6 94 Disambiguation of 'underground heating system for a bath': 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hippocaust

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