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Latin
Etymology
febrīcula (“little fever”) + -ōsus (“full of”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
febrīculōsus (feminine febrīculōsa, neuter febrīculōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- feverish, febrile
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 6.4–5:
- verum nescio quid febriculosi
scorti diligis: hoc pudet fateri.- But some enfevered jade, I wot-not-what,
Some piece thou lovest, blushing this to own.
c. 203 BCE,
Plautus,
Cistellaria 2.1.134:
- non quasi nunc haec sunt hic, limaces, lividae,
febriculosae, miserae amicae, osseae- not as now these are here, slimy, spiteful,
feverish, miserable friends, bony
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “febriculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “febriculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- febriculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.