Noun: pyrexia
| Singular | pyrexia |
| Plural | pyrexias; pyrexiae |
Sample Sentences
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The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing. [1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253:]
Nouns inflected like pyrexia
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From post-classical Latin pyrexia, from Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).