different between fever vs cauma

English

Alternative forms

• feaver, fevre (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fi?v?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fiv?/
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)
• Hyphenation: fe?ver

Noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

1. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.

   "I have a fever. I think I've the flu."

2. (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.

   scarlet fever

3. A state of excitement or anxiety.
4. (neologism) A group of stingrays.

Synonyms

• (higher than normal body temperature): high temperature, pyrexia (medical term), temperature
• (state of excitement): excitation, excitement, passion

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Related terms

• fervent
• fervid
• fervor

Translations

See also

• hyperthermia

References

• fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)

1. To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

   a fevered lip
2. To become fevered.

Further reading

• fever in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fever in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• fevre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cauma (“heat”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”). Probably a doublet of calm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??m?/

Noun

cauma

1. Great heat, as of the body in fever.

Anagrams

• Cà Mau, Macau

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kaûma, “heat, especially of the sun”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kau?.ma/, [?käu?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kau?.ma/, [?k??u?m?]

Noun

cauma n (genitive caumatis); third declension

1. heat
2. (by extension) heat of the day

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Related terms

• cynocauma
• caum?

Descendants

• English: cauma, calm
• Spanish: calma
• Italian: calma

References

• cauma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cauma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cauma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette