The corpus record — Latin

fervesco

to become boiling hot

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
De Rerum Natura 6 · 1.23/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

fervesco — Lewis & Short

fervesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [ferveo], to become boiling hot, to begin to boil, begin to glow, to grow hot.

I Lit. (ante-class. and post-Aug.): possent seriae fervescere, Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 9: fervescens materia, Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 107: terrae sole, Lucr. 6, 851: summa pars corporis, id. 6, 1164: ventus mobilitate sua, id. 6, 177: ventorum validis fervescunt viribus undae, boil up, id. 3, 491.— —*

II Trop.: (animus) in ira cum fervescit, Lucr. 3, 289.

In the wild

fervescunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.428
fervescere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.1164
fervescat Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.253
fervescere Plautus, Captivi 4.4
fervescit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.41.p1
fervescit Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.7.2

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. feruésco (scan p. 254; entry #3949).

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