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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *feɣʷrwom (“belonging to an offering, means of purification”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰrwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰógʷʰrus (“belonging to a burning, an offering”), from *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, warm”), cognate with febris.
Noun
februum n (genitive februī); second declension
- means of purification, expiatory offerings
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
References
- “februum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- februum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “februum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “februum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 269
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “februum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 208