fiebre

fiebre

1. First-person singular present of fiebern.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of fiebern.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of fiebern.
4. Imperative singular of fiebern.

From Old Spanish fiebre, hiebre, probably a semi-learned descendant of Latin febris, febrem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰris, an extension of the root *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, warm”). This term was used primarily by doctors and educated people in the past, and did not undergo all the expected sound changes of an inherited term; compare the more popular term calentura[1].

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjebɾe/, [ˈfjeβɾe]
• Rhymes: -eβɾe

fiebre f (plural fiebres)

1. fever

   Synonym: calentura

• afiebrar

• febril

• “fiebre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.