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fervidus

hot

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Cento Nuptialis 2 · 14.66/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Carmina 6 · 4.51/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 4 · 3.55/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Hamartigenia 2 · 3.13/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Ira 6 · 2.69/10k

Densest 12 of 61 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fervidus — de Vaan

fervidus 'hot' (Acc.+), fervor 'heat, ardor' (Varro+); confervefocere 'to make thoroughly hot' (Lucr.+X defervefacere 'to boil thoroughly' (Cato+), defervescere 'to come to a full boil; cool off (Cato+), ejferv(e)o 'to boil up/over' (Lucr+), — [de Vaan, s.v. fervidus, p. 229]

2. fervĭdus — Lewis & Short

fervĭdus, a, um, adj.fervor,

I glowing hot, burning, fiery, glowing (class.; syn.: tepidus, calidus, ignĕus).

I Lit.: quarta pars mundi (i. e. ignis) tota natura fervida est, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 27: sol, Lucr. 4, 407; cf.: ictus (solis), Hor. C. 2, 15, 9: ardor, Lucr. 5, 204: ventus, id. 6, 180: aestus, sultry, Hor. S. 1, 1, 38: aequor, raging, id. C. 1, 9, 10: Aetna, id. Epod. 17, 32: sidus, id. ib. 1, 27: vina, id. S. 2, 8, 38: herba sapore acri et fervido, Plin. 20, 11, 44, § 113.—Comp.: merum, Hor. Epod. 11, 14.—Sup.: tempus diei, Curt. 3, 5.—

II Trop., glowing, fiery, hot, vehement, impetuous, violent: florente juventā Fervidus (opp. senex), Hor. A. P. 116: juvenes, id. C. 4, 13, 26: puer (i. e. Cupido), id. ib. 1, 30, 5: fervidus ingenio, Ov. M. 14, 485; cf.: mortis fraternae fervidus irā, Verg. A. 9, 736: subitā spe fervidus ardet, id. ib. 12, 325: fervidus ingenii Masinissa et fervidus aevi, Sil. 17, 414: praepropera ac fervida ingenia, Liv. 27, 33, 10: fervidi animi vir, id. 2, 52, 7 Drak. N. cr.: virtus, fiery, eager, Cat. 64, 218: fervidum quoddam et petulans et furiosum genus dicendi, Cic. Brut. 68, 241; cf.: fervida oratio, id. ib. 83, 288: Appii volubilis et paulo fervidior erat oratio, id. ib. 28, 108: dicta, Verg. A. 12, 894.

In the wild

fervidi Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 45
fervido Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 p13
fervida Seneca, De Ira 2.19.1
fervida Seneca, Agamemnon 1
fervidi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.9.4
fervido Tacitus, Annales 15.p73

6 of 144 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. fervidus (scan p. 229; entry #560).

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