sudoriferous

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Scrabble points: 16
Words With Friends: 18
Letters: 12

Definition of sudoriferous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Bearing sweat; sweating, sweaty.

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Etymology

From the Latin sūdōrifer (“bearing sweat”). The term originally came from the Latin sūdor (“sweat”) from the Latin verb sūdō (“to sweat”) + -i- + -fer (“-fer, that which carries”) from the Latin verb ferō (“to bring”) + -ous (forming -ferous).