Translation
to smoke
Word origin
From Latin fumus, 'smoke', alive in Italian fumare and French fumer. English keeps the root in fume and fumigate.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fumus
- English cognates
- fume, fumigate
Examples
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Do not smoke in the house!
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He stopped smoking two years ago.
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The fire was still smoking in the morning.
covers both directions: a chimney and so does a smoker, with making the tobacco sense explicit. The noun fumo is the smoke itself, and a smoker is fumanto. is the sign you will actually see.
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