Translation
fever
Word origin
From Latin febris, 'fever'. English fever came the long way round through Old English, but febrile keeps the Latin form intact.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- febris
- English cognates
- fever, febrile
Examples
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The child has a high fever.
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After two days the fever went away.
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The sick boy has a fever and is lying in bed.
is the raised temperature itself, so it takes rather than : you , you are not fever. Febra describes something done in a fevered state, and senfebra is free of it. The figurative English use survives in ora for a gold rush, though a learner is safer keeping the word medical.
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