febra

See also: febră

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. febrile, feverish

Related terms

• febro

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Galician

Alternative forms

• freba

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin fibra (“fiber; boneless meat”) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source. Cognate with Portuguese fêvera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeβɾa̝/

Noun

febra f (plural febras)

1. fiber, thread
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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

Derived terms

• entrefrebado
• februdo

References

• “feuera” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “féuera” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfebra]

Noun

febra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of febră