ferveo

• fervō

From Proto-Italic *ferweō, from earlier *ferwejō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Cognate with Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar), Old Armenian բորբ (borb), Welsh berw (“to boil”), English burn, brew, per De Vaan[1] citing Schrijver.[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfer.u̯e.oː/, [ˈfɛru̯eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfer.ve.o/, [ˈfɛrveo]

ferveō (present infinitive fervēre, perfect active ferbuī or fervī, supine fervitum); second conjugation, impersonal in the passive

1. to be hot
2. to burn
3. to boil; seethe, foam
4. (figuratively) to come or swarm forth in great numbers
5. (figuratively) to be inflamed, agitated or fired up

• “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.