febris

Esperanto

Verb

febris

  1. past of febri

Ido

Verb

febris

  1. past of febrar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *feɣʷris, from earlier pre-Italic *θeɣʷris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-ri-s, an extension of the root *dʰegʷʰ- (to burn, warm). Cognate with februum, foveō, Ancient Greek τέφρα (téphra).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

febris f (genitive febris); third declension

  1. fever

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in or -e).

singular plural
nominative febris febrēs
genitive febris febrium
dative febrī febribus
accusative febrim
febrem
febrēs
febrīs
ablative febrī
febre
febribus
vocative febris febrēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: frebbe, frebba, fre
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: febbre
    • Neapolitan: freva, freve
    • Sicilian: frevi
    • Venetan: fevra, féra
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: freve
    • Piedmontese: frev, fevra
    • Romagnol: févra
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • Proto-West Germanic: *fēbr (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “febris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 208

Further reading

  • febris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • febris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "febris", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • febris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have a severe attack of fever: aestu et febri iactari
  • febris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • febris”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Adjective

febris

  1. plural of febril