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English
Etymology
From Latin febrīcula.
Noun
febricula (plural febriculas or febriculae)
- A mild fever of short duration, of indefinite origin, and without any distinctive pathology.
Latin
Etymology
From febris (“fever”) + -cula.
Pronunciation
Noun
febrīcula f (genitive febrīculae); first declension
- a slight fever
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “febricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “febricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- febricula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.