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語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfiːvə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfivɚ/
• 韻: -iːvə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: fe‧ver

名詞

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

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

   There has been a rise in my 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.

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

   scarlet fever

3. A state of excitement or anxiety.
   • c. 1602 (date written), 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.

4. (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.

5. (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.

   Asian fever

   clown fever

   white fever

   blue fever

同意語

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

下位語

派生語

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派生した語

• Tok Pisin: fiva

参考

• hyperthermia

動詞

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

   • 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

2. To become fevered.

参照

• 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.

アナグラム

• fevre