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fervor
English
Alternative forms
- fervour (Commonwealth)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?v?/
Noun
fervor (countable and uncountable, plural fervors)
- (American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
- (American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
- (American spelling) Heat.
Synonyms
- (passionate enthusiasm): fire in the belly, zeal
Related terms
- fervent
- fervid
- fever
Translations
Further reading
- fervor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fervor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fervor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- frover
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin fervor, attested from the 14th century.
Noun
fervor m or f (plural fervors)
- fervor
Derived terms
- fervorós
Related terms
- fervent
References
Further reading
- “fervor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fervor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fervor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Etymology
From ferve? +? -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?fer.u?or/, [?f?ru??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fer.vor/, [?f?rv?r]
Noun
fervor m (genitive ferv?ris); third declension
- boiling heat
- fermenting
- ardour, passion, fury
- intoxication
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- fervor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fervor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fervor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin fervor. Attested from the 14th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
fervor f (plural fervors)
- fervor
- Synonym: ardor
Related terms
- fervent
- fervorós
References
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin ferv?ris.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /f??.?vo?/
- Hyphenation: fer?vor
Noun
fervor m (plural fervores)
- fervour (passionate enthusiasm)
Related terms
- fervente
- fervoroso
Further reading
- “fervor” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ferv?ris.
Noun
fervor m (plural fervores)
- fervor
Related terms
- ferviente
- fervoroso
Further reading
- “fervor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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heat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?t, IPA(key): /hi?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hit/, [çit]
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English hete, from Old English h?te, h?tu (“heat, warmth; fervor, ardor”), from Proto-Germanic *hait?? (“heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayd-, a derived form of *kay- (“heat; hot”).
Cognate with Scots hete (“heat”), North Frisian hiet (“heat”), Old High German heiz? (“heat”). Related also to Dutch hitte (“heat”), German Hitze (“heat”), Swedish hetta (“heat”), Icelandic hiti (“heat”).
Noun
heat (countable and uncountable, plural heats)
- (uncountable) Thermal energy.
- 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
- Heat and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change? […] if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
- 2007, James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition, pages 106–108:
- (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
- (uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- (uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- Synonyms: passion, vehemence
- (uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
- (uncountable, slang) The police.
- (uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
- (countable, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
- (countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- (countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- (countable) A hot spell.
- (uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- (uncountable) The output of a heating system.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English heten, from Old English h?tan (“to heat; become hot”), from Proto-Germanic *haitijan? (“to heat, make hot”).
Verb
heat (third-person singular simple present heats, present participle heating, simple past and past participle heated or (dialectal) het)
- (transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- I'll heat up the water.
- (intransitive) To become hotter.
- There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- (transitive, figuratively) To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- The massage heated her up.
Derived terms
Synonyms
- stoke
- warm up
- heat up; hot up, hot
Translations
Anagrams
- Thea, eath, haet, hate, heta
Swedish
Etymology
From English heat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hi?t/
- Homophone: hit
Noun
heat n
- (sports) A heat, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
Declension
Anagrams
- Thea, heta
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