fever

English

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Alternative forms

• fevre (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fievre, reinforced by native Old English fēfor, from Latin febris (“a fever”), from ferveō (“to be hot, burn, boil”); or perhaps literally 'a trembling', akin to Greek φέβεσθαι (febesthai, “to flee affrighted”), φόβος (fobos, “flight, panic fear, fear, terror”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈfiːvə/, SAMPA: /"fi:v@/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ˈfiːvɚ/, SAMPA: /"fi:v@`/

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• Rhymes: -iːvə(r)
• Hyphenation: fe‧ver

Noun

fever (plural fevers)

1. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

   "I have a fever. I think I've caught a cold."

2. (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

   scarlet fever

3. A state of excitement (of a person or people).
4. A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

• (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
• (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

Derived terms

Terms derived from fever

abortus fever absorption fever acclimating fever Aden fever adynamic fever aestivoautumnal fever, estivoautumnal fever African Coast fever African haemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic fever algid pernicious fever aphthous fever ardent fever arthropod-borne fever artificial fever aseptic fever Assam fever ataxic fever autumn fever barrel fever Bay fever beaver fever benign tertian fever biduoterian fever biliary fever bilious fever bilious remittent fever black fever black fly fever blackwater fever blue fever bouquet fever boutonneuse fever bovine ephemeral fever bovine epizootic fever bovine infectious petechial fever bovine malignant catarrhal fever bovine petechial fever brain fever, brain-fever brass founder's fever, brassfounder's fever Brazilian purpuric fever breakbone fever buck fever, buck-fever Bullis fever bullous fever Bunyamwera fever Burdwan fever Bwamba fever cabin fever cachectic fever, cachexial fever California valley fever camp fever, camp-fever cane-cutter fever cane-field fever, canefield fever canicola fever Cape Horn fever Carrión's fever Carter's fever cat-bite fever catarrhal fever cat fever catheter fever cat scratch fever, cat-scratch fever central fever cerebro-spinal fever, cerebrospinal fever Chagres fever channel fever Charcot intermittent fever, Charcot's intermittent fever Charcot's fever chikungunya fever childbed fever childbirth fever Choix fever congestive fever Congolian red fever Congo red fever continued fever, continuous fever cotton fever cotton-mill fever country fever Crimean fever Cyprus fever dance fever dandy fever, dandy-fever date fever day-fever deer fly fever, deer-fly fever dehydration fever dengue fever desert fever diary fever digestive fever diphasic milk fever disfever dock fever double quotidian fever drug fever duck fever dumdum fever Dutch type periodic fever East Coast fever Ebola fever

Ebola virus fever elephantoid fever Elokomin fluke fever enfever enteric fever entericoid fever entrance fever ephemeral fever epimastical fever eruptive fever essential fever exanthematous fever exsiccation fever falciparum fever familial Hibernian fever familial periodic fever famine fever farrowing fever fatigue fever feed a cold, starve a fever feverable fever ague fever and ague fever-bark fever blister, fever-blister fever bush, feverbush fever-chart fever-cooling fevered feveress feveret fever-fly fever grass fever-heat fever-hectic feverish feverite fever lent feverless fever-lurdan, fever-lurgan fever-lurden fever-lurk feverly fever-nut fever of unknown origin feverous fever pitch fever powder, fever-powder fever ring Fever River fever root, fever-root fever-sick fever sore, fever-sore fever therapy fever thermometer fever-trap fever treatment fever tree, fever-tree fever twig, fever-twig fever-weakened fever-weed fever-wood fever-wort, feverwort fevery field fever five-day fever flood fever fog fever Fort Bragg fever food fever Fort Bragg fever Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever, Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome foundryman's fever Gambian fever gaol fever, gaol-fever gastric fever gastric remittent fever Gibraltar fever glandular fever gold fever, gold-fever grain fever green fever haematuric bilious fever, hematuric bilious fever haemoglobinuric fever, hemoglobinuric fever haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever Hankow fever harvest fever Hasami fever Haverhill fever hay fever, hay-fever hectic fever hempen fever hepatic intermittent fever herpetic fever horse sickness fever hospital fever humidifier fever icterohaemorrhagic fever, icterohemorrhagic fever Ilheus fever inanition fever induced fever inflammatory fever

intermittent fever inundation fever island fever Jaccoud's dissociated fever jail-fever, jail fever Japanese flood fever Japanese river fever jungle fever, jungle-fever jungle yellow fever Junin fever Katayama fever Kedani fever Kenya fever Kew Gardens fever Kinkiang fever Korin fever Lábrea fever, Lábrea's black fever land fever Lassa fever Lassa haemorrhagic fever, Lassa hemorrhagic fever laurel fever Lazaret fever lechuguilla fever Lombard fever Lone Star fever lung fever malarial fever malignant catarrhal fever malignant tertian fever Malta fever Manchurian fever Marseilles fever marsh fever, marsh-fever Mediterranean coast fever Mediterranean erythematous fever Mediterranean exanthematous fever Mediterranean fever meningotyphoid fever metal fume fever Meuse fever Mexican fever Mianeh fever miliary fever milk fever, milk-fever mill fever Monday fever monoleptic fever Mossman fever mountain fever mud fever mumu fever Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever Murchison-Sanderson fever nanukayami fever Neapolitan fever nervous fever nine mile fever nodal fever Ohio River Valley fever o'nyong-nyong fever Oropouche fever Oroya fever Pahvant Valley fever paludal fever papataci fever, papatasi fever, pappataci fever papular fever paratyphoid fever parenteric fever parrot fever parturient fever Pel-Ebstein fever periodic fever petechial fever Pfeiffer's glandular fever pharyngoconjunctival fever phlebotomus fever pink-fever pinta fever pituitous fever polka fever polyleptic fever polymer fume fever Pomona fever Pontiac fever Potomac fever Potomac horse fever pretibial fever prison fever, prison-fever prison fever typhus protein fever puerperal fever puking fever purple fever putrid fever Pym fever, Pym's fever pyogenic fever Q fever query fever rabbit fever rat-bite fever, ratbite fever recrudescent typhus fever recurrent fever

recurring fever red fever redwater fever relapsing fever remittent fever rheumatic fever Rhodesian fever, Rhodesian redwater fever rice-field fever Rift Valley fever Rock fever, rock fever Rocky Mountain fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever Roman fever rose fever, rose-fever Ross River fever rotanny fever run a fever sakushu fever Salinem fever salt fever sand-fly fever, sandfly fever San Joaquin fever, San Joaquin Valley fever Santa Marta fever Sao Paulo fever, São Paulo fever scarlet fever Schamberg fever Schottmüller's fever secondary fever Sennetsu fever septic fever Shar Pei fever shin bone fever ship fever, ship-fever shipping fever shoddy fever Sindbis fever slime fever slow fever smelter's fever snail fever solar fever Songo fever South African tick-bite fever, South African tickbite fever spelter's fever spirillary fever spirillum fever splenic fever spotted fever spottled fever spring fever sthenic fever stockyards fever steroid fever stranger's fever streptobacillary fever summer fever sun fever suppurative fever surgical fever swamp fever swine fever symptomatic fever syphilitic fever Texas cattle fever, Texas fever therapeutic fever thermic fever thirst fever threshing fever tick-bite fever tick-borne fever tick fever Tobia fever traumatic fever trench fever trypanosome fever tsutsugamushi fever typhoid fever typhus fever undifferentiated type fever undulant fever undulating fever upgrade fever urethral fever urinary fever urticarial fever uveoparotid fever valley fever verruga fever vivax fever war fever Wesselsbron fever West African fever West Nile fever Whitmore's fever winter fever Wolhynia fever womb fever worm fever wound fever Yangtze Valley fever yellow fever Zika fever zinc fume fever

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fervor

Translations

higher than normal body temperature

Arabic: حمة (ar) (Húmma) f., حمى (ar) (Húmma) f. Armenian: տենդ (hy) (tend), տաքություն (hy) (tak’ut’yun), ջերմություն (hy) (ǰermut’yun) Bosnian: groznica (bs) f. Catalan: febre f. Chamicuro: alijkwa'takochi Chinese: Mandarin: 發燒 (cmn), 发烧 (cmn) (fāshāo) (verb; "to have a fever") Czech: horečka (cs) f. Dutch: verhoging (nl) f., koorts (nl) f. Esperanto: febro (eo) Finnish: kuume (fi) French: fièvre (fr) f. German: Fieber (de) n. Greek: πυρετός (el) (pyretós) m. Guaraní: akãnundu Hindi: बुख़ार (hi) (buxār) m. Hungarian: láz (hu) Icelandic: hiti (is) n. Interlingua: febre Italian: febbre (it) f. Japanese: 熱 (ja) (ねつ, netsu), 発熱 (ja) (はつねつ, hatsunetsu) Korean: 열 (ko) (yeol), 열병 (ko) (yeolbyeong), 熱病 (ko) Kurdish: Kurmanji: ta f., tasar f., tagerm f. Sorani: تا (ku) (tA)

Lao: ໄຂ້ (lo) (khai) Latin: febris (la) Navajo: tahoniigááh‎ Nepali: ज्वरो Norwegian: feber (no) m. Old English: hriþ (ang) Polish: gorączka (pl) f., temperatura (pl) f. Portuguese: febre (pt) f. Romanian: temperatură (ro) f., febră (ro) f. Russian: температура (ru) (temperatúra) f. (при болезни), лихорадка (ru) (lixorádka) f. Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras (gd) m. Serbian: грозница (sr) (groznica) f. Spanish: fiebre (es) f. Sumerian: idpa Swahili: homa (class 9/10) Swedish: feber (sv) c. Thai: ไข้ (th) (kâi) Ukrainian: жар (uk) (žar) m., (colloquial) температура (uk) (temperatúra) f. Urdu: بخار (ur) (buxār) m. Vietnamese: cơn sốt (vi) Volapük: fif (vo) Welsh: twymyn (cy)

usually in combination: any of various diseases

Armenian: տենդ (hy) (tend) Greek: πυρετός (el) (pyretós) m. Navajo: tahoniigááh‎ Norwegian: feber (no) m.

Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras (gd) m. Swahili: homa (sw) Swedish: feber (sv) c. Ukrainian: лихоманка (uk) (lyxománka) f.

state of excitement (of a person or people)

Armenian: հուզմունք (hy) (huzmunk’) Greek: πυρετός (el) (pyretós) m., έξαψη (el) (éksapsi) f. Norwegian: feber (no) m.

Swahili: homa (sw) Swedish: feber (sv) c. Ukrainian: лихоманка (uk) (lyxománka) f.

See also

• hyperthermia

External links

• fever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fever in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911