different between ferver vs zeal

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ferve?.

Verb

ferver

1. to boil

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ferver (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ferve?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe???e?/

Verb

ferver (first-person singular present fervo, first-person singular preterite fervín, past participle fervido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to boil

Conjugation

Derived terms

• aferventar (“to blanch”)
• fervellasverzas (“restless person”, literally “boil-their-greens”)
• fervente (“boling; fiery”)
• fervenza (“waterfall”)
• ferver a cachón (“to bubble; to boil violently”)

References

• “ferver” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “ferv” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ferver” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ferver” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ferver” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ferver, from Latin ferve?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eru- (“to be hot, boil”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f???ve?/

Verb

ferver (first-person singular present indicative fervo, past participle fervido)

1. (transitive) to boil (heat a liquid until it begins to turn into a gas)
2. (intransitive) to boil (of a liquid); to turn into gas
3. (intransitive) (figuratively) to be crowded with people

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin z?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“to search”). Related to jealous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zil/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)

1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

   Synonyms: ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

   Antonym: apathy

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 10.2,^[1]

     […] I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

   • 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, London: Jacob Tonson, Part 3, p. 96,^[2]

     Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, pp. 143-144,^[3]

     […] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 14, p. 250,^[4]

     [He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, p. 248,^[5]

     The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

2. (obsolete) A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.

   Synonym: zealot

   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, Act V, Scene 5, p. 85,^[6]

     […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!

   • 1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, p. 5,^[7]

     […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;

3. The collective noun for a group of zebras.

   Synonyms: dazzle, herd

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Elza, laze, zale