fervens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of ferveō (“I am hot”).

Participle

fervēns (genitive ferventis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. hot
2. burning, raging, fiery
3. boiling
4. vehement; zealous
5. impetuous

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	fervēns			ferventēs	ferventia
Genitive	ferventis			ferventium
Dative	ferventī			ferventibus
Accusative	ferventem	fervēns		ferventēs ferventīs	ferventia
Ablative	fervente ferventī1			ferventibus
Vocative	fervēns			ferventēs	ferventia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: fierbinte
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Friulian: ferbint
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: fervente ⇒ fervenza
  • Portuguese: fervente
  • Spanish: hirviente
    • ⇒ herventar
    • ⇒ hervencia
• Òc:
  • Catalan: fervent
• Borrowings:
  • → English: fervent
  • → French: fervent
  • → Italian: fervente
  • → Piedmontese: fervent
  • → Spanish: ferviente ⇒ fervencia

References

• “fervens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fervens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fervens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.