febris

Esperanto

Verb

febris

1. past of febri

Ido

Verb

febris

1. past of febrar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *feɣʷris, from earlier *θeɣʷris, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris, an extension of the root *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, warm”). Cognate with februum, foveō, Ancient Greek τέφρα (téphra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.bris/, [ˈfɛbrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.bris/, [ˈfɛːbris]

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 -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
• 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 Galician-Portuguese: febre, fever
    • Galician: febre
    • Portuguese: febre
  • Old Spanish: hiebre, fiebre (semi-learned)
    • Spanish: fiebre
    • Ladin: fiëura
• → Proto-West Germanic: *fēbr (see there for further descendants)

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^[2], 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. feminine singular of febril