fever

See also: Fever

English

Alternative forms

• feaver, fevre (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer,German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfivɚ/

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

Noun

fever (countable and uncountable, 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 the flu."

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).
   • Shakespeare

     an envious fever

4. A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of fever

• abortus fever
• absorption fever
• acclimating fever
• Aden fever
• adynamic fever
• aestivoautumnal fever
• African Coast 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
• black fever
• black fly fever
• blackwater fever
• blue fever
• bouquet fever
• boutonneuse fever
• bovine epizootic fever
• brain fever
• brass founder's fever
• brassfounder's fever
• Brazilian purpuric fever
• breakbone fever
• buck fever
• Bullis fever
• bullous fever
• Bunyamwera fever
• Burdwan fever
• Bwamba fever
• cabin fever
• cachectic fever
• cachexial fever
• camp fever
• cane-cutter fever
• canefield fever
• cane-field fever
• canicola fever
• Cape Horn fever
• Carrión's fever
• Carter's fever
• catarrhal fever
• cat-bite fever
• cat fever
• catheter fever
• cat-scratch fever
• central fever
• cerebro-spinal fever
• cerebrospinal fever
• Chagres fever
• channel 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
• date 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
• English fever
• enteric fever
• entericoid fever
• entrance fever
• ephemeral fever
• epimastical fever
• eruptive fever
• essential fever
• estivoautumnal fever
• exanthematous fever
• exsiccation fever
• falciparum fever
• familial Hibernian fever
• familial periodic fever
• famine fever
• farrowing fever
• fatigue fever
• field fever
• five-day fever
• flood fever
• fog fever
• food fever
• Fort Bragg fever
• foundryman's fever
• Gambian fever
• gaol fever
• gastric fever
• Gibraltar fever
• glandular fever
• gold fever
• grain fever
• green fever
• haematuric bilious fever
• haemoglobinuric fever
• haemorrhagic fever
• Hankow fever
• harvest fever
• Hasami fever
• Haverhill fever
• hay fever
• hectic fever
• hematuric bilious fever
• hemoglobinuric fever
• hemorrhagic fever
• hempen fever
• hepatic intermittent fever
• herpetic fever
• horse sickness fever
• hospital fever
• humidifier fever
• Ilheus fever
• inanition fever
• induced fever
• inflammatory fever
• intermittent fever
• inundation fever
• island fever
• Jaccoud's dissociated fever
• jail fever
• Japanese flood fever
• Japanese river 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
• laurel fever
• Lazaret fever
• lechuguilla fever
• Lombard fever
• Lone Star fever

• lung fever
• malarial fever
• malignant tertian fever
• Malta fever
• Manchurian fever
• Marseilles 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
• 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
• o'nyong-nyong fever
• Oropouche fever
• Oroya 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
• pharyngoconjunctival fever
• phlebotomus 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 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
• rice-field fever
• rock fever
• Rock fever
• Roman fever
• rose fever

• Ross River fever
• rotanny fever
• run a fever
• sakushu fever
• Salinem fever
• salt fever
• sandfly fever
• sand-fly fever
• Santa Marta fever
• scarlet fever
• Schamberg fever
• Schottmüller's fever
• secondary fever
• Sennetsu fever
• septic fever
• Shar Pei fever
• shin bone fever
• ship fever
• shipping fever
• shoddy fever
• Sindbis fever
• slime fever
• slow fever
• smelter's fever
• snail fever
• solar fever
• Songo fever
• spelter's fever
• spirillary fever
• spirillum fever
• splenic fever
• spotted fever
• spottled fever
• spring fever
• steroid fever
• sthenic fever
• stockyards fever
• stranger's fever
• streptobacillary fever
• summer fever
• sun fever
• suppurative fever
• surgical fever
• swamp fever
• swine fever
• symptomatic fever
• syphilitic fever
• São Paulo 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
• yellow fever
• Zika fever
• zinc fume fever

Derived terms

Terms derived from fever

• brain fever
• buck fever
• camp fever
• enfever
• feverable
• fever-bark
• fever-blister
• fever bush
• fever-chart
• fever-cooling
• fever dream
• fevered
• feveress
• feveret

• fever-fly
• fever-heat
• fever-hectic
• feverish
• feverite
• feverless
• fever-lurdan
• fever-lurden
• fever-lurgan
• fever-lurk
• feverly
• fever-nut
• feverous
• fever pitch

• fever-powder
• fever-ridden
• feverroot
• fever-sick
• fever-sore
• fever-trap
• fever-tree
• fever-twig
• fever-weakened
• fever-weed
• fever-wood
• feverwort
• fevery

• gaol-fever
• gold fever
• hay fever
• hospital fever
• jail fever
• jungle fever
• marsh fever
• milk fever
• pink-fever
• prison fever
• putrid fever
• rose fever
• ship fever

Related terms

Terms related to fever

• feed a coldstarve a fever
• fever ague
• fever and ague
• fever blister
• fever bush

• fever grass
• fever lent
• fever of unknown origin
• fever pitch
• fever powder

• fever ring
• fever root
• fever sore
• fever therapy
• fever thermometer

• fever treatment
• fever tree
• fever twig
• Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome
• Fever River

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fervor

Translations

higher than normal body temperature

• Arabic: حُمَّة‎‎ f (ḥumma), حُمَّى‎‎ f (ḥummā)

  Moroccan Arabic: سخانة‎‎ f (skhana)

• Armenian: տենդ (hy) (tend), տաքություն (hy) (takʿutʿyun), ջերմություն (hy) (ǰermutʿyun)
• Aromanian: heavrã f
• Asturian: fiebre f
• Belarusian: тэмперату́ра f (tempjeratúra), гара́чка f (haráčka)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: tawla f (ⵜⴰⵡⵍⴰ f)

• Bulgarian: температу́ра (bg) f (temperatúra)
• Burmese: အဖျား (my) (a.hpya:)
• Catalan: febre (ca) f
• Chakma: 𑄎𑄧𑄢𑄴 (jar)
• Chamicuro: alijkwa'takochi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發熱 (zh), 发热 (zh) (fārè), 發燒 (zh), 发烧 (zh) (fāshāo) (verb; "to have a fever")

• Czech: horečka (cs) f
• Danish: feber (da) c
• Dutch: verhoging (nl) f, koorts (nl) f
• Esperanto: febro
• Estonian: palavik (et)
• Faroese: fepur m
• Finnish: kuume (fi)
• French: fièvre (fr) f
• Friulian: fiere f
• Galician: febre f
• Georgian: სიცხე (sicxe), ციებ-ცხელება (cieb-cxeleba), ტემპერატურა (ṭemṗeraṭura)
• German: Fieber (de) n
• Greek: πυρετός (el) m (pyretós)

  Ancient: πυρετός m (puretós)

• Guaraní: akãnundu
• Gujarati: તાવ m (tāv)
• Hindi: बुख़ार (hi) m (buxār)
• Hungarian: láz (hu)
• Icelandic: hiti (is) m, hitasótt f
• Indonesian: demam (id)
• Interlingua: febre
• Irish: fiabhras m
• 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)), 발열 (ko) (baryeol)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: ta (ku) f, tasar (ku) f, tagerm (ku) f

  Sorani: تا‎‎ (ku) (tA)

• Lao: ໄຂ້ (lo) (khai)
• Latin: febris (la)
• Latvian: drudzis m
• Lü: ᦺᦃᧉ (ẋay²)
• Malay: demam
• Maore Comorian: ɓuhuo class 5/6
• Navajo: tahoniigááh
• Nepali: ज्वरो (jwaro)
• Norman: fièvre f
• Norwegian: feber (no) m
• Occitan: fèbre (oc)
• Old English: hriþ
• Persian: تب‎‎ (fa) (tab)
• Polish: gorączka (pl) f, temperatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: febre (pt) f
• Quechua: rupha
• Romanian: temperatură (ro) f, febră (ro) f
• Romansch: fevra f, feavra f, feivra f
• Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra), лихора́дка (ru) f (lixorádka), горя́чка (ru) f (gorjáčka)
• Sardinian: calentura f, callantura f
• Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грозница f

  Roman: groznica (sh) f

• Sicilian: frevi (scn)
• Slovak: horúčka (sk) f
• Slovene: vročina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zymnica f

• Spanish: fiebre (es) f
• Sumerian: [script needed] (idpa)
• Swahili: (class 9/10) homa (sw), harara (sw)
• Swedish: feber (sv) c
• Telugu: జ్వరము (te) (jvaramu)
• Thai: ไข้ (th) (kâi)
• Ukrainian: гаря́чка f (harjáčka), (colloquial) температу́ра f (temperatúra)
• Urdu: بخار‎‎ m (buxār)
• Venetian: fevra f, féra
• Vietnamese: cơn sốt
• Volapük: fif (vo)
• Walloon: five (wa) f
• Welsh: twymyn, achre m
• Westrobothnian: febber m

usually in combination: any of various diseases

• Armenian: տենդ (hy) (tend)
• Bulgarian: треска (bg) f (treska)
• Greek: πυρετός (el) m (pyretós)
• Navajo: tahoniigááh
• Norwegian: feber (no) m
• Polish: gorączka (pl) f

• Russian: лихора́дка (ru) f (lixorádka), горя́чка (ru) f (gorjáčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras m
• Swahili: homa (sw)
• Swedish: feber (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка f (lyxománka), пропа́сниця (uk) f (propásnycja)

state of excitement (of a person or people)

• Armenian: հուզմունք (hy) (huzmunkʿ)
• Belarusian: ліхама́нка f (lixamánka)
• Finnish: kuume (fi), huuma (fi), vimma (fi)
• Greek: πυρετός (el) m (pyretós)
• Norwegian: feber (no) m

• Russian: лихора́дка (ru) f (lixorádka)
• Swahili: homa (sw)
• Swedish: feber (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лихома́нка f (lyxománka)

See also

• hyperthermia

References

• fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)

1. To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

   a fevered lip

   The white hand of a lady fever thee. — Shakespeare.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fevre