febricula

From Latin febrīcula.

febricula (plural febriculas or febriculae)

1. A mild fever of short duration, of indefinite origin, and without any distinctive pathology.

From febris (“fever”) +‎ -cula.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feˈbriː.ku.la/, [fɛˈbriːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈbri.ku.la/, [feˈbriːkulä]

febrīcula f (genitive febrīculae); first declension

1. a slight fever

First-declension noun.

• febrīculentus
• febrīculōsus

• “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.