fever(フィーバー)
要点熱、熱病、興奮
意味
- 《しばしばa fever》(身体の異常な)熱,発熱
- 熱病
- (…に対する)興奮,熱狂《+for+名》
例文
This is snowy weather is giving me cabin fever.
こうした雪の天候だと外に遊びに出たくなる。
A lot of people are dealing with hay fever now.
近頃は多くの人が花粉症持ちだ。
"Why didn't you do that?" "Because I had a fever."
「どうしてそれをしなかったんだ?」「熱があったんだよ」
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Displaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.