Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. · The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. · Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. · Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour.
To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor. · To turn into vapor. · To emit vapor or fumes. · To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster.
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kwapōs Latin vapor Old French vapeurder. Old French vaporbor. Middle English vapour English vapor From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”).
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