different between fever vs fastigium

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

From Latin fastigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæs?t?d?.i.?m/

Noun

fastigium (plural fastigia)

1. An apex or summit; culmination.
2. (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
3. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *b?érstis, from *b?ers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fas?ti?.?i.um/, [fäs??t?i??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas?ti.d??i.um/, [f?s?t?i?d??ium]

Noun

fast?gium n (genitive fast?gi? or fast?g?); second declension

1. peak, summit, top
2. slope, declivity, descent
3. gable
4. sharp point
5. highlight (of a story or poem)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• fast?g?

Descendants

• French: faîte (partially)
• Spanish: hastial
• ? Portuguese: fastígio
• ? Spanish: fastigio

References

• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fastigium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastigium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin