febra

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See also: febră and febrą

Catalan[edit]

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Noun[edit]

febra f (plural febres)

  1. (Valencian) Alternative form of febre

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Esperanto[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfebra/
  • Hyphenation: feb‧ra

Adjective[edit]

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)

  1. febrile, feverish

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Galician[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin fibra (fiber; boneless meat) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source.[1] Cognate with Portuguese fêvera.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

febra f (plural febras)

  1. fiber, thread
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:
      Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro
      You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold
  2. lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

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References[edit]

  • feuera” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • féuera” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • freba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • febra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • febra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008), “febra”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin febris.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛb.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛbra
  • Syllabification: feb‧ra

Noun[edit]

febra f

  1. ague (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
  2. (colloquial) herpes
    Synonym: opryszczka
  3. (dated) malaria
    Synonyms: malaria, zimnica

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adjective

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adverb

Further reading[edit]

  • febra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • febra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian[edit]

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Noun[edit]

febra f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of febră