Sudoriferous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing sweat; sweating, sweaty. not-comparable

Etymology

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

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