febrile
Meaningfeverish
Common meaning: feverish
- febra feverLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 732 · scan
- ileadjective ending: relating to
Journey through time
- Latinfebris‘a fever’
- Frenchfebrile
- Englishfebrile‘feverish’ · today
febr also in: fever
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin febris ‘a fever’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry febris, p. 732 · dictionary scan
Roots
- febris Latin “a fever”
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