Etymograph

English

febrile

Febrile comes from Medieval Latin febrīlis ‘feverish’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‘to burn, warm’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰegʷʰ-‘to burn, warm’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰegʷʰ-ri-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*feɣʷris‘fever’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfebris‘fever’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500febrīlis‘feverish’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1983febrile

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰegʷʰ-‘to burn, warm’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*dʰegʷʰ-ri-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*feɣʷris‘fever’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfebris‘fever’
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500febrīlis‘feverish’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1983febrile

Earliest quotation: 1983, Isaac Asimov: “Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge…”

Equivalent to febris + -ile

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‘to burn, warm’

day, dear, dawn, darling, daw, foment, 20 more

through Latin febris ‘fever’

fever, 4 more

Today it means

adj Feverish, or having a high temperature.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- / febrile

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