fervescent

English

Etymology

From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

fervescent (comparative more fervescent, superlative most fervescent)

1. Growing hot.
   • 1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

     Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fervescent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

fervēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of fervēscō