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febris

fever

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Where it lives

De Medicina 267 · 26.05/10k
Antoninus Pius 2 · 8.91/10k
Apocolocyntosis 2 · 7.38/10k
Divus Titus 1 · 6.72/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Fato 2 · 4.04/10k
Epistulae 3 · 3.03/10k
Naturalis Historia 107 · 2.7/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2 · 2.41/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. febris — de Vaan

febris 'fever' [f. i] (Ρ1.+) Derivatives: febriculosus 'fever-ridden' (P1.+). Pit */e;fri-. PIE *dhegwh-ro- 'burning' > *dhegwh-ri- 'burn, fever'. IE cognates: Gr. τέφρα 'ashes'. Bibl.: WH I: 471, EM 222, IEW 240f., Leumann 1977: 166, Schrijver 1991: 186, Sihler 1995: 165, Vine 2002: 336, LIV *dhegwh-. -*Jbve5 — [de Vaan, s.v. febris, p. 222]

2. fē^bris — Lewis & Short

fē^bris (the ē predominating in poets), is (acc.

sing.:

I febrem, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 20; Sen. Ep. 14, 6; Quint. 2, 17, 9: febrim, Hor. S. 2, 3, 294; Plaut. Pseud. 2, 2, 48; Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 1; Plin. 25, 4, 17, § 37 Jan. et saep.— Abl.: febri, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31; id. Att. 6, 9; or: febre, id. Att. 7, 1, 1; Suet. Vit. 14; Plin. Ep. 7, 1, 4: Juv. 10, 218 al.), f. for fer-bris, root bhar-, to be hot, v. ferveo, a fever.

I Prop.: appellamus a calendo calorem, e fervore febrim, Varr. ap. Non. 46, 22: quotidiana, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 22: si cui venae sic moventur, hic habet febrem, Cic. Fat. 8, 15; cf.: febrim habere, id. Fam. 7, 26, 1; Suet. Oth. 6: aestu febrique jactari, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31: te Romam venisse cum febri, id. Att. 6, 9, 1; cf.: cum febri domum rediit, id. de Or. 3, 2, 6: febri carere, id. Fam. 16, 15, 1; for which, in an altered construction: caruitne febris te heri? Plaut. Curc. 1, 1, 17: cum sine febri laborassem, Cic. Att. 5, 8, 1: in febri, id. Tusc. 1, 36, 88: in febrim subito incidere, id. Fam. 14, 8, 1: febre liberari, Cels. 2, 17: febri liberari, Plin. 26, 11, 71, § 116: febre corripi, id. 7, 51, 52, § 172: febre calere, Juv. 10, 218: quem torret olim domestica febris, i. e. at home in him, id. 9, 17: vigili cum febre, id. 13, 229: reliquit eum febris, Vulg. Johan. 4, 52.—In plur.: vide, ne tertianas quoque febres et quartanas divinas esse dicendum sit, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 24: febres aliae ab horrore incipiunt, aliae a frigore, aliae a calore, Cels. 3, 3 sq.: calidae febres, Lucr. 2, 34: opella forensis Adducit febres, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9.—

B Febris, personified as a deity, with three temples in Rome, the principal of which was on the Palatium, in the neighborhood of the Velabrum, Cic. N. D. 3, 25, 63; id. Leg. 2, 11, 28; Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 16; Val. Max. 2, 5, 6; cf.: Febri divae, Febri sanctae, Febri magnae, Camilla pro filio amato, Inscr. Grut. p. 97, 1.—*

II Trop., a source of uneasiness, torment: certo scio, nunc febrim tibi esse, quia, etc., Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 48 Ritschl N. cr.

3. febris — Walde–Hofmann

febris (dial. [?] A- Serv. Aen. 7, 695 ohne Gewähr), -£e (Akk. -im, Abl. -z, jünger -em, -e) £. „Fieber“ (seit Plaut., rom. [z. T. heterokl. febra, Wartburg DI 441], ebenso febréscó „bekomme Fieber* seit Sol.; Dem. febricula (-i?, metr. nicht belegt] „leichtes Fieber“ seit Cic., febrieulösus [Leumann-Stolz* 231} „vom Fieber geplagt seit Plt., -écósus Veg., -culentus Mare. med.; febriö, -ire „habe Fieber“ seit Colum. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. febris, p. 503]

In the wild

febre Celsus, De Medicina 2.7.p2
febris Celsus, De Medicina 1.3.p1
febres Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.4.p9
febris Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.804
febris Petronius, Satyricon 56
febres Celsus, De Medicina 7.18.p2

6 of 497 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. febris (scan p. 222; entry #537). Root candidates: *dhegwh-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. febris (scan p. 246; entry #3818).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. febris (scan pp. 503-504; entry #1088). Root candidates: *bhues-.

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