The corpus record — Latin

effervo

to boil up

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Where it lives

Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ef-fervo — Lewis & Short

ef-fervo, ĕre (

I praes. effervent, Vitr. 2, 6, 5), v. n., to boil up or over (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): in agros Aetna, Verg. G. 1, 471: quatenus in pullos animales vortier ova Cernimus alituum vermesque effervere, qs. to come boiling forth, i. e. to swarm forth, Lucr. 2, 928; cf. Verg. G. 4, 556; id. Dir. 15; Stat. Th. 4, 664.—Hence, effer-vens, entis, P. a., boiling with passion, i. e. fervent, ardent: siquidem laetitia dicitur exsultatio quaedam animi gaudio efferventior eventu rerum expetitarum, Gell. 2, 27, 3.

In the wild

effervere Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 1.1
effervent Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.6.5
effervere Statius, Thebais 4.664
effervens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.6.1
effervere Vergil, Georgicon 4.556
effervere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.928

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Where it came from

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