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English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek θέρμοι (thérmoi).
Noun
thermoi
- plural of thermos (“unit of measure”)
Etymology 2
Equivalent to Ancient Greek θερμοί (thermoí), plural of θερμός (thermós, “warm”).
Noun
thermoi
- (rare) plural of thermos (“flask”)
1922, C.S. Lewis, All my road before me: the diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927, published 1992, page 71:After lunch Arthur and I set off with baskets of food and thermoi.
1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, page 61:I brewed coffee black as a dog, and made it growl and bark with cognac. I took the two big thermoi (?) and kenneled it safely […]
2011, Dornford Yates, The House That Berry Built, page 4:[…] we select some high place upon which we can eat undisturbed, and we then proceed to lug hampers, cushions, rugs, sunshades, thermoi and two buckets of beer upon ice up a gradient that the Gadarene swine would have refused.
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