Abnormally high body temperatures, usually as a sign of illness; plural of fever.
From Latin 'febris', possibly related to Sanskrit 'dapati' (it burns). The word appears in Old English and has remained virtually unchanged for over a thousand years.
Fever was so mysterious in ancient times that it was attributed to demons and spirits—we kept the word even after germ theory explained what was really happening.
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