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querquerus

querquerus · adj

cold to trembling

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

querquĕrus — Lewis & Short

querquĕrus or quercĕrus, a, um, adj.cf. Gr. karkai/rw, to tremble,

I cold to trembling, shivering (ante- and post-class.): querqueram frigidam cum tremore a Graeco ka/rkara certum est dici, unde et carcer. Lucilius: Jactans me ut febris querquera, the ague, Paul. ex Fest. p. 256 Müll.; so, febris querquera, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 719 P.: febris rapida et quercera, Gell. 20, 1, 26; also, absol.: querquĕra, ae, f., the ague: querqueras sanare, Arn. 1, 28; App. Mag. p. 297, 14 (al. querquerum).

In the wild

quercerum Apuleius, Apologia 35
quercera Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.1.26

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. querquerus (scan p. 580; entry #9503).

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