pyrexia

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English

Etymology

From post-classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pyrexia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).

Noun

pyrexia (countable and uncountable, plural pyrexias or pyrexiae)

  1. (medicine) Fever. [from 18th c.]
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 253:
      The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.
  2. (medicine) Trench fever.

Derived terms

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