fervor

English

Alternative forms

• (Commonwealth spelling) fervour

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝvɚ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

fervor (countable and uncountable, plural fervors)

1. (American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

   The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.

2. (American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
3. (American spelling) Heat.

Synonyms

• (passionate enthusiasm): fire in the belly, zeal

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fever

Translations

intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor

• Bulgarian: плам (bg) (plam), страст (bg) f (strast)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱情 (zh), 热情 (zh) (rèqíng)

• Finnish: palo (fi)
• French: ferveur (fr) f
• German: Inbrunst (de) f, Eifer (de) m, Begeisterung (de) f
• Japanese: 熱情 (ja) (ねつじょう, netsujō), 情熱 (じょうねつ, jōnetsu)

• Maori: wana
• Persian: جوشش‎ (fa) (jušeš)
• Portuguese: fervor (pt) m
• Romanian: fervoare (ro) f, ardoare (ro) f
• Russian: рве́ние (ru) n (rvénije), пыл (ru) m (pyl), жар (ru) m (žar), усе́рдие (ru) n (usérdije)
• Serbo-Croatian: žȃr (sh) m, gòrljivōst (sh) f, zános (sh) m
• Turkish: tutku (tr)

passionate enthusiasm for some cause

• Bulgarian: разпаленост (bg) f (razpalenost)
• Finnish: palo (fi)
• German: Leidenschaft (de) f
• Irish: díograis f
• Persian: جوشش‎ (fa) (jušeš)
• Portuguese: fervor (pt) m

• Romanian: fervoare (ro) f
• Russian: страсть (ru) f (strastʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: žȃr (sh) m, gòrljivōst (sh) f, zános (sh) m
• Swedish: nit (sv)
• Turkish: tutku (tr)

heat

• Armenian: տապ (hy) (tap)
• Bulgarian: жега (bg) f (žega), зной (bg) m (znoj)

• Russian: жара́ (ru) f (žará), зной (ru) m (znoj), жар (ru) m (žar)
• Turkish: hararet (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ferveur (f), émoi (m)

• Urdu: سرفروش (n)

Further reading

• fervor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fervor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “fervor” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Anagrams

• frover

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Latin

Etymology

From ferveō +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfer.wor/, [ˈfɛr.wɔr]

Noun

fervor m (genitive fervōris); third declension

1. boiling heat
2. fermenting
3. ardour, passion, fury
4. intoxication

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fervor	fervōrēs
Genitive	fervōris	fervōrum
Dative	fervōrī	fervōribus
Accusative	fervōrem	fervōrēs
Ablative	fervōre	fervōribus
Vocative	fervor	fervōrēs

References

• fervor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fervor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fervor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fervōris.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɨɾ.ˈvoɾ/
• Hyphenation: fer‧vor

Noun

fervor m (plural fervores)

1. fervour (passionate enthusiasm)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fervōris.

Noun

fervor m (plural fervores)

1. fervor