Idioms for sweat
Origin of sweat
before 900; 1970–75
for def 6; (v.) Middle English
sweten, Old English
swǣtan to sweat, derivative of
swāt (noun) (> obsolete English
swote); (noun) Middle English, alteration of
swote, influenced by the v.; cognate with Dutch
zweet, German
Schweiss, Old Norse
sveiti, Sanskrit
svedas; akin to Latin
sūdor, Greek
hidrṓs
synonym study for sweat
24. See
perspiration.
historical usage of sweat
Sweat has a very distinguished ancestry. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European root
sweid-, swoid-, swid-. The suffixed form
swoidos (a noun) appears in Germanic as
swaitaz, regularly becoming
swāt in Old English,
Schweiss in German, and
sveiti in Old Norse. The related form
swoidōs- regularly becomes the noun
sūdōr- (inflectional stem of
sūdor ) in Latin, from which English derives
sudorific “causing sweat” and
sudoriparous “secreting sweat.” Greek, as is common, goes its own way and forms its noun from the variant root
swid- extended with the suffix
-ro- (
swidro- ) to form
hidrṓs, from which English derives
hidrosis (excessive production of sweat); the Greek form is made obscure by the cluster
sw- becoming
h-. The form
swidro- becomes
sviêdri in Latvian, a Baltic language that, like Lithuanian, is very resistant to change.
OTHER WORDS FROM sweat
sweat·less, adjective non·sweat·ing, adjective un·sweat·ing, adjectiveWords nearby sweat
British Dictionary definitions for sweat off (1 of 2)
sweat off
sweat away
verb
(tr, adverb) informal
to get rid of (weight) by strenuous exercise or sweating
British Dictionary definitions for sweat off (2 of 2)
sweat
/ (swɛt) /
noun
verb sweats, sweating, sweat or sweated
Derived forms of sweat
sweatless, adjectiveWord Origin for sweat
Old English
swætan to sweat, from
swāt sweat; related to Old Saxon
swēt, Old Norse
sveiti, Old High German
sweiz, Latin
sūdor, Sanskrit
svedas
Medical definitions for sweat off
sweat
[ swĕt ]
v.
To excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; perspire.
n.
The colorless saline moisture excreted by the sweat glands; perspiration.
The process of sweating.
Scientific definitions for sweat off
sweat
[ swĕt ]
The salty liquid given off by sweat glands in the skin of mammals. As sweat evaporates, the skin cools, causing a reduction in body heat.
Idioms and Phrases with sweat off
sweat