ferveo
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Latin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *ferweō, from earlier *ferwejō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar), Old Armenian բորբ (borb), Welsh berw (“to boil”), English burn, brew, per De Vaan[1] citing Schrijver.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfer.u̯e.oː/, [ˈfɛru̯eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfer.ve.o/, [ˈfɛrveo]
Verb
[edit]ferveō (present infinitive fervēre, perfect active ferbuī or fervī, supine fervitum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive
- to be hot
- to burn
- to boil; seethe, foam
- (figuratively) to come or swarm forth in great numbers, be alive with, teem, abound
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.405–407:
- [...] pars grandia trūdunt / obnīxae frūmenta umerīs; pars agmina cōgunt / castīgantque morās; opere omnis sēmita fervet.
- [The Trojans are compared to an army of ants carrying food:] Some struggle against big grains, pushing with their shoulders; others marshal the ranks and rebuke delays: The whole trail swarms with activity.
- [...] pars grandia trūdunt / obnīxae frūmenta umerīs; pars agmina cōgunt / castīgantque morās; opere omnis sēmita fervet.
- (figuratively) to be inflamed, agitated or fired up
Conjugation
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 165
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ferveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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