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fervent

/ˈfɜːvənt/FUR-vuhnt
/ˈfɝvənt/FUR-vuhnt

Meaningboiling

Common meaning: full of passion

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√MAD‘drip, to flow’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 258, p. 738 · scan
  2. Latinferveō‘to boil, seethe’
  3. Frenchfervent
  4. Middle Englishferuentsource
  5. Englishfervent‘full of passion’ · today

ferv also in: fervoureffervescent

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin ferveō ‘to boil, seethe’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry ferveō, p. 742 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • ferveō Latin “to boil, seethe”

Related words

effervescentfervour

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