fever – English noun declension

English noun forms of fever

Noun: fever
Singularfever
Pluralfevers

Sample Sentences

  • There has been a rise in my fever. I think I've the flu.
  • 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. [2016 September 16, Hailey Middlebrook, “Should you really feed a cold and starve a fever?”, in CNN:]
  • scarlet fever
  • an envious fever [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]:]
  • 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. [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:]
  • 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. [2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:]
  • 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, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:]
  • She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays. [2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:]
  • Asian fever
  • clown fever
  • white fever
  • blue fever

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "fever"

Danish Nouns feber, Russian Nouns февраль, Russian Nouns дёготь.