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fever

/ˈfivə/FEE-vur
/ˈfivɚ/FEE-vur

Meaninga fever

Common meaning: a high body temperature

Journey through time

  1. Latinfebris‘a fever’
  2. Frenchjfievre
  3. Middle Englishfewersource
  4. Englishfever‘a high body temperature’ · today

fev also in: febrile

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: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

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

Related words

febrile

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