# fever
## English
### Alternative forms

* feaver, fevre (obsolete, rare)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfiːvə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfivɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: fe‧ver

### Noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)
* (medicine) 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."
** 2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN‎:Proper nutrition – and even more important, proper hydration – is crucial in preventing and recovering from both fevers and colds. […] As Abramson explained, when we are sick, whether we have a fever or not, our metabolic rates skyrocket, and our bodies need more calories to support that high metabolic rate.
* (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
    scarlet fever
* A state of excitement or anxiety.
** c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:an envious fever
** 1996 March 15, Jonathan Mirsky, “Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale”, in The Times‎, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 15, column 3:There is little doubt that while war fever has not gripped Taipei, its economic foundations are being shaken. The stock market rose yesterday, but only because the Government has pumped $1.5 billion (£1 billion) into it after $370 million was drained from banks, and stocks were sold by investors who are worried by the Chinese manoeuvres.
* (neologism) A group of stingrays.
** 2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:On the way back to the mainland the boat passed over a fever of stingrays, and the sight of them through the glass was enough to colour everything else, and outstrip it.
** 2020, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:They move like thoughts, like memory, like a Wes Anderson diorama of earthly delights: lionfish, an albacore, a fever of stingrays—and then like a wound, a sea turtle at eye level.
** 2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.
* (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
    Asian fever
    clown fever
    white fever
    blue fever

#### Synonyms

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

#### Hyponyms

* abortus fever
* absorption fever
* acclimating fever
* Aden fever
* adynamic fever
* aestivoautumnal fever
* African Coast fever
* algid pernicious fever
* aphthous fever
* ardent fever
* arthropod-borne fever
* artificial fever
* aseptic fever
* Asian fever
* Assam fever
* Astrakhan fever
* ataxic fever
* autumn fever
* barrel fever
* Bay fever
* beaver fever
* benign tertian fever
* biduoterian fever
* biliary fever
* bilious fever
* black fever
* black fly fever
* blackwater fever
* blue fever
* bouquet fever
* boutonneuse fever
* bovine epizootic fever
* brain fever
* brassfounder's fever
* brass founder's fever
* Brazilian purpuric fever
* breakbone fever
* buck fever
* Bullis fever
* bullous fever
* Bunyamwera fever
* Burdwan fever
* Bwamba fever
* cabin fever
* cachectic fever
* cachexial fever
* camp fever
* cane-cutter fever
* cane-field fever
* canefield fever
* canicola fever
* Cape Horn fever
* Carrión's fever
* Carter's fever
* catarrhal fever
* cat-bite fever
* cat fever
* catheter fever
* cat-scratch fever
* central fever
* cerebro-spinal fever
* cerebrospinal fever
* Chagres fever
* channel fever
* Charcot's fever
* chikungunya fever
* childbed fever
* childbirth fever
* Choix fever
* complicate fever
* congestive fever
* Congolian red fever
* Congo red fever
* continued fever
* continuous fever
* cotton fever
* cotton-mill fever
* country fever
* Crimean fever
* Cyprus fever
* dance fever
* dandy fever
* date fever
* deer fly fever
* dehydration fever
* dengue fever
* desert fever
* diary fever
* digestive fever
* diphasic milk fever
* disfever
* dock fever
* double quotidian fever
* drug fever
* duck fever
* Dum Dum fever
* Dumdum fever
* dumdum fever
* Dutch type periodic fever
* East Coast fever
* Ebola fever
* Ebola virus fever
* elephantoid fever
* Elokomin fluke fever
* English fever
* enteric fever
* entericoid fever
* entrance fever
* ephemeral fever
* epimastical fever
* eruptive fever
* essential fever
* estivoautumnal fever
* exanthematous fever
* exsiccation fever
* falciparum fever
* familial Hibernian fever
* familial periodic fever
* famine fever
* farrowing fever
* fatigue fever
* field fever
* five-day fever
* flood fever
* fog fever
* food fever
* Fort Bragg fever
* foundryman's fever
* Gambian fever
* gaol fever
* gastric fever
* Gibraltar fever
* glandular fever
* gold fever
* grain fever
* green fever
* haematuric bilious fever
* haemoglobinuric fever
* haemorrhagic fever
* Hankow fever
* harvest fever
* Hasami fever
* Haverhill fever
* hay fever
* hectic fever
* hematuric bilious fever
* hemoglobinuric fever
* hemorrhagic fever
* hempen fever
* hepatic intermittent fever
* herpetic fever
* horse sickness fever
* hospital fever
* humidifier fever
* Ilheus fever
* inanition fever
* induced fever
* inflammatory fever
* intermittent fever
* inundation fever
* island fever
* Jaccoud's dissociated fever
* jail fever
* Japanese flood fever
* Japanese river fever
* jungle fever
* jungle yellow fever
* Junin fever
* Katayama fever
* Kedani fever
* Kenya fever
* Kew Gardens fever
* Kinkiang fever
* Korin fever
* Lábrea fever
* Lábrea's black fever
* land fever
* Lassa fever
* laurel fever
* Lazaret fever
* lechuguilla fever
* Lhasa fever
* Lombard fever
* Lone Star fever
* low grade fever
* lung fever
* malarial fever
* malignant tertian fever
* Malta fever
* Manchurian fever
* Marseilles fever
* marsh fever
* Mediterranean coast fever
* Mediterranean erythematous fever
* Mediterranean exanthematous fever
* Mediterranean fever
* Mediterranean spotted fever
* meningotyphoid fever
* metal fume fever
* Meuse fever
* Mexican fever
* Mianeh fever
* miliary fever
* milk fever
* mill fever
* Monday fever
* monoleptic fever
* Mossman fever
* mountain fever
* mud fever
* mumu fever
* Murchison-Pel-Ebstein fever
* Murchison-Sanderson fever
* nanukayami fever
* Neapolitan fever
* nervous fever
* nine mile fever
* nodal fever
* o'nyong-nyong fever
* Oropouche fever
* Oroya fever
* paludal fever
* papataci fever
* papatasi fever
* pappataci fever
* papular fever
* paratyphoid fever
* parenteric fever
* parrot fever
* parturient fever
* Pel-Ebstein fever
* periodic fever
* petechial fever
* pharyngoconjunctival fever
* phlebotomus fever
* pinta fever
* pituitous fever
* polka fever
* polyleptic fever
* polymer fume fever
* Pomona fever
* Pontiac fever
* Potomac fever
* Potomac horse fever
* pretibial fever
* prison fever
* prison fever typhus
* protein fever
* puerperal fever
* puking fever
* pukka fever
* purple fever
* putrid fever
* Pym fever
* Pym's fever
* pyogenic fever
* Q fever
* query fever
* rabbit fever
* ratbite fever
* rat-bite fever
* recrudescent typhus fever
* recurrent fever
* recurring fever
* red fever
* redwater fever
* relapsing fever
* remittent fever
* rheumatic fever
* Rhodesian fever
* rice-field fever
* Rock fever
* rock fever
* Roman fever
* rose fever
* Ross River fever
* rotanny fever
* run a fever
* sakushu fever
* Salinem fever
* salt fever
* sandfly fever
* sand-fly fever
* Santa Marta fever
* São Paulo fever
* scarlet fever
* Schamberg fever
* Schottmüller's fever
* secondary fever
* Sennetsu fever
* septic fever
* Shar Pei fever
* shin bone fever
* ship fever
* shipping fever
* shoddy fever
* Sindbis fever
* slime fever
* slow fever
* smelter's fever
* snail fever
* solar fever
* Songo fever
* spelter's fever
* spirillary fever
* spirillum fever
* splenic fever
* spotted fever
* spottled fever
* spring fever
* steroid fever
* sthenic fever
* stockyards fever
* stranger's fever
* streptobacillary fever
* summer fever
* sun fever
* suppurative fever
* surgical fever
* swamp fever
* swine fever
* symptomatic fever
* syphilitic fever
* Texas cattle fever
* Texas fever
* therapeutic fever
* thermic fever
* thirst fever
* three-day fever
* threshing fever
* tick-bite fever
* tick-borne fever
* tick fever
* Tobia fever
* tomato fever
* traumatic fever
* trench fever
* trypanosome fever
* tsutsugamushi fever
* typhoid fever
* typhus fever
* undifferentiated type fever
* undulant fever
* undulating fever
* upgrade fever
* urethral fever
* urinary fever
* urticarial fever
* uveoparotid fever
* valley fever
* verruga fever
* vivax fever
* war fever
* Wesselsbron fever
* West African fever
* West African hemorrhagic fever
* West Nile fever
* Whitmore's fever
* winter fever
* Wolhynia fever
* womb fever
* worm fever
* wound fever
* yellow fever
* Zika fever
* zinc fume fever

#### Derived terms

* 7-day fever
* African swine fever virus
* antifever
* Arab fever
* baby fever
* Bieber fever
* Botany Bay fever
* bovine ephemeral fever
* bovine infectious petechial fever
* bovine malignant catarrhal fever
* bovine petechial fever
* brain fever
* brain-fever
* brain-fever bird
* buck fever
* Bulam fever
* camp fever
* cat scratch fever
* cedar fever
* Charcot intermittent fever
* Charcot's intermittent fever
* drain fever
* enfever
* familial Mediterranean fever
* feverable
* fever-bark
* fever-blister
* fever bush
* fever-chart
* fever clinic
* fever coat
* fever-cooling
* fever dream
* fevered
* feveret
* fever-fly
* fever fog
* fever-heat
* fever-hectic
* feverish
* feverless
* feverlike
* fever-lurdan
* fever-lurden
* fever-lurgan
* fever-lurk
* feverly
* fever-nut
* feverous
* fever pitch
* fever-pitched
* fever-powder
* fever-ridden
* feverroot
* fever-sick
* feversome
* fever-sore
* fever swamp
* fever-swamp
* fever tea
* fever-trap
* fever-tree
* fever-twig
* fever-weakened
* fever-weed
* feverweed
* fever-wood
* feverwort
* fevery
* gaol-fever
* gate fever
* go fever
* gold fever
* hay-fever
* hay fever
* hayfever
* hay feverite
* hog fever
* hog-fever
* hospital fever
* I have a fever
* Indian fever
* jail fever
* Japanese fever
* jungle fever
* Karelian fever
* Katayama's fever
* ladies' fever
* lazaret fever
* Liszt fever
* low-grade fever
* lunar hay fever
* maculated fever
* malignant catarrhal fever
* maple fever
* Marburg fever
* Marburg hemorrhagic fever
* marsh fever
* Miana fever
* milk fever
* miniature scarlet fever
* monkey fever
* Ohara's fever
* pageant fever
* pencil fever
* Persian relapsing fever
* Pfeiffer's glandular fever
* pink-fever
* prison fever
* pseudofever
* putrid fever
* quintan fever
* rash fever
* Rhodesian redwater fever
* Rift Valley fever
* Rocky Mountain fever
* Rocky Mountain spotted fever
* rose fever
* San Joaquin fever
* San Joaquin Valley fever
* severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
* ship-fever
* ship fever
* Spanish fever
* stage fever
* summit fever
* sun-fever
* swine fever
* terai fever
* thunder fever
* tramp fever
* white fever
* white line fever

#### Related terms

* feed a cold, starve a fever
* fever ague
* fever and ague
* fever blister
* fever bush
* fever grass
* fever lent
* fever of unknown origin
* fever pitch
* fever powder
* fever ring
* Fever River
* fever root
* fever sore
* fever therapy
* fever thermometer
* fever treatment
* fever tree
* fever twig
* Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome

#### Related terms

* febrile
* fervent
* fervid
* fervor

#### Translations

Afrikaans: koors
Albanian: ethe (sq) f
Amharic: ትኩሳት (təkusat)
Arabic: حُمَّة f (ḥumma), حُمَّى f (ḥummā)
Egyptian Arabic: سخنية f (suxuneyya)
Hijazi Arabic: حرارة f (ḥarāra)
Moroccan Arabic: سخانة f (sḵāna)
Armenian: տենդ (hy) (tend), տաքություն (hy) (takʻutʻyun), ջերմություն (hy) (ǰermutʻyun), կրակ (hy) (krak) (figuratively)
Aromanian: heavrã f
Assamese: জ্বৰ (zor)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܡܚܲܡܬܵܐ f (ḥamḥamtā)
Asturian: fiebre f
Azerbaijani: qızdırma
Bashkir: биҙгәк (biźgək)
Basque: sukar
Belarusian: тэмперату́ра (be) f (tempjeratúra), гара́чка f (haráčka), жар m (žar), ліхама́нка f (lixamánka)
Bengali: জ্বর (bn) (jor)
Berber:
Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⵡⵍⴰ f (tawla)
Bikol Central: kalentura (bcl)
Bulgarian: температу́ра (bg) f (temperatúra), тре́ска (bg) f (tréska)
Burmese: အဖျား (my) (a.hpya:)
Catalan: febre (ca) f
Cebuano: hilanat, kalentura
Chakma: 𑄎𑄧𑄢𑄴 (jar)
Chamicuro: alijkwa'takochi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發熱 / 发热 (zh) (fārè), 發燒 / 发烧 (zh) (fāshāo) (verb; "to have a fever"), 熱病 / 热病 (zh) (rèbìng), 熱病 / 热病 (zh) (rèbìng)
Classical Nahuatl: tletl
Czech: horečka (cs) f, teplota (cs) f
Danish: feber (da) c
Dutch: verhoging (nl) f, koorts (nl) f
Egyptian: (šmmt f)
Esperanto: febro
Estonian: palavik (et)
Faroese: fepur m
Finnish: kuume (fi)
French: fièvre (fr) f
Friulian: fiere f
Galician: febre f, quentura f
Georgian: სიცხე (sicxe), ციებ-ცხელება (cieb-cxeleba), ტემპერატურა (ṭemṗeraṭura)
German: Fieber (de) n, Temperaturerhöhung f
Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐍉 f (brinnō), 𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍉 f (heitō)
Greek: πυρετός (el) m (pyretós)
Ancient: πυρετός m (puretós)
Guaraní: akãnundu
Gujarati: તાવ m (tāv)
Hebrew: קַדַּחַת (he) f (kadákhat)
Hiligaynon: hilanat
Hindi: बुख़ार (hi) m (buxār), ज्वर (hi) m (jvar)
Hungarian: (above 37.8°C or 100°F) láz (hu), (moderate fever, 36.8–37.8°C or 98.2–100°F) hőemelkedés (hu)
Icelandic: hiti (is) m, hitasótt f
Ilocano: gurigor
Indonesian: demam (id)
Ingrian: žaaru, varitauti
Interlingua: febre
Iquito: ípanaca
Irish: fiabhras m
Isnag: daxang
Italian: febbre (it) f
Japanese: 熱 (ja) (ねつ, netsu), 発熱 (ja) (はつねつ, hatsunetsu)
Kapampangan: lagnat
Kazakh: қызба (qyzba)
Khmer: គ្រុន (km) (krun)
Korean: 열(熱) (ko) (yeol), 열병(熱病) (ko) (yeolbyeong), 발열(發熱) (ko) (baryeol)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: تا (ta)
Northern Kurdish: ta (ku) f, tasar (ku) f, tagerm (ku) f
Kyrgyz: калтыратма (ky) (kaltıratma), безгек (ky) (bezgek)
Ladin: fiëura f
Lao: ໄຂ້ (lo) (khai)
Latin: febris (la) f
Latvian: drudzis m
Lithuanian: karščiavimas m
Lü: ᦺᦃᧉ (ẋay²)
Macedonian: треска f (treska)
Malagasy: fanaviana (mg)
Malay: demam (ms)
Maore Comorian: ɓuhuo class 5/6
Navajo: tahoniigááh
Nepali: ज्वरो (jvaro)
Norman: fièvre f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: feber (no) m
Occitan: fèbre (oc)
Old English: hriþ
Pali: pariḷāha m, jararoga m
Pangasinan: puetang
Pashto: تبه (ps) f (tᶕba)
Persian: تب (fa) (tab)
Plautdietsch: Feeba n, Braunt n
Polish: gorączka (pl) f, temperatura (pl) f
Portuguese: febre (pt) f
Punjabi: ਤਾਪ (pa) m (tāp), ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰ (pa) m (buxār)
Quechua: rupha
Romagnol: favarsena f
Romanian: temperatură (ro) f, febră (ro) f
Romansch: fevra f, feavra f, feivra f
Russian: температу́ра (ru) f (temperatúra), лихора́дка (ru) f (lixorádka), горя́чка (ru) f (gorjáčka), жар (ru) m (žar)
Sanskrit: ज्वर (sa) m (jvara)
Sardinian: calentura f, callantura f
Scottish Gaelic: fiabhras m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гро̀зница f
Roman: gròznica (sh) f
Sicilian: frevi (scn)
Slovak: horúčka (sk) f
Slovene: vročina (sl) f
Somali: qandho (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: zymnica f
Southern Altai: туму (tumu), безгек (bezgek)
Spanish: fiebre (es) f, calentura (es) f
Sumerian: 𒌓 (/⁠ud⁠/)
Swahili: (class 9/10) homa (sw), harara (sw)
Swedish: feber (sv) c
Tagalog: lagnat (tl)
Tajik: таб (tab), табларза (tablarza)
Tamil: காய்ச்சல் (ta) (kāyccal), ஜுரம் (ta) (juram), ஜ்வரம் (jvaram)
Tatar: бизгәк (tt) (bizgäk)
Tausug: hinglaw
Telugu: జ్వరము (te) (jvaramu), వేకి (te) (vēki), పులకరము (te) (pulakaramu)
Thai: ไข้ (th) (kâi)
Tigrinya: ምርባጽ (mərbaṣ)
Turkish: ateş (tr)
Turkmen: gyzzyrma
Ukrainian: гаря́чка f (harjáčka), лихома́нка f (lyxománka), температу́ра f (temperatúra) (colloquial), жар m (žar), пропáсниця f (propásnycja)
Urdu: بُخار m (buxār)
Uyghur: قىزىتما (qizitma)
Uzbek: isitma (uz), bezgak (uz)
Venetan: fevra f, féra
Vietnamese: sốt (vi)
Volapük: fif (vo)
Walloon: five (wa) f
Welsh: twymyn, achre m
Yakan: lemmun
Yiddish: פֿיבער m (fiber) :

#### See also

* hyperthermia

### Verb

fever (third-person singular simple present fevers, present participle fevering, simple past and past participle fevered)
* To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
    a fevered lip
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene xiii]:the white hand of a lady fever thee
* To become fevered.

### References

* fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Further reading

* “fever”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fever”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* fevre