febris
Esperanto
Verb
febris
- past of febri
Ido
Verb
febris
- past of febrar
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *feɣʷris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris, an extension of the root *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, warm”). Cognate with februum, foveō,Ancient Greek τέφρα (téphra).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.bris/, [ˈfɛbrɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.bris/, [ˈfɛːbris]
Noun
febris f (genitive febris); third declension
- fever
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).
Case | 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
- febrīlis (Medieval Latin)
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: heavrã, hior
- Romanian: fior
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: febbre
- → Romanian: febră
- Neapolitan: freva, freve
- Sicilian: frevi
- Italian: febbre
- Old French: fievre (see there for further descendants)
- French: fièvre
- → English: fever
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: febre, febra
- Occitan: fèbre, frèbe, feure
- Northern Italian:
- Romagnol: févra
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: fiere
- Romansch: fevra, feavra, feivra
- Sardinian: frebbe, frebba, fre
- Venetian: fevra, féra
- West Iberian
- Asturian: fiebre
- Old Portuguese: febre, fever
- Galician: febre
- Portuguese: febre
- Old Spanish: hiebre, fiebre (semi-learned)
- Spanish: fiebre
- Borrowings
- → Old English: fefor (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Low German: feber
- → Danish: feber
- → Norwegian: feber
- → Swedish: feber
- → Old High German: fiebar
- Middle High German: vieber
- Cimbrian: viibar, biibar
- German: Fieber
- Luxembourgish: Féiwer
- Middle High German: vieber
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a severe attack of fever: aestu et febri iactari
- 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Portuguese
Adjective
febris
- feminine singular of febril