ferveo

• fervō

From Proto-Italic *ferweō, from earlier *ferwejō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar), Old Armenian բորբ (borb), Welsh berw (“to boil”), English burn, brew, per De Vaan^[1] citing Schrijver.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.we.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.ve.o]

ferveō (present infinitive fervēre, perfect active ferbuī or fervī, supine fervitum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to be hot
2. to burn
3. to boil; seethe, foam
4. (figuratively) to come or swarm forth in great numbers, be alive with, teem, abound
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.405–407:

     [...] pars grandia trūdunt / obnīxae frūmenta umerīs; pars agmina cōgunt / castīgantque morās; opere omnis sēmita fervet.

     [The Trojans are compared to an army of ants carrying food:] Some struggle against big grains, pushing with their shoulders; others marshal the ranks and rebuke delays: The whole trail swarms with activity.

5. (figuratively) to be inflamed, agitated or fired up

• “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.