Warmed

How to spell warmed

6 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce warmed

What does warmed mean?

1. verbMade or became warmer; raised in temperature, or made to feel more friendly or comfortable.

Warmed in a sentence

• She warmed the leftover soup on the stove before dinner.

• The afternoon sun gradually warmed the patio stones.

Where does warmed come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the past tense of the verb 'warm', which descends from the Old English wearm, meaning 'warm' or 'mildly hot'. That word came from a shared Germanic root, seen also in the Dutch warm and the German warm, and ultimately from an ancient Indo-European root linked to ideas of heat and burning. For most of its life the word was an adjective describing a comfortable degree of heat; the verb sense, 'to make or become warm', grew naturally out of it. The regular past tense was formed simply by adding the -ed ending, and the spelling has stayed steady because 'warm' itself never picked up any silent or doubled letters. The main thing to remember is that the base ends in a single 'm', so the past tense is just warm plus -ed, with no extra consonant.

How the word is built

• warm (root, from Old English wearm: hot, heated)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)