• fervour (Commonwealth)

From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- +‎ -or (“abstract noun suffix”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːvə/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈfəːvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝ.vɚ/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /fɛɾvəɾ/
• (New Zealand, Wales) IPA^(key): /føːvə/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /feːvə/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /fɛːvə/
• Homophone: further (th-fronting, fern–fir–fur merger)

fervor (countable and uncountable, plural fervors)

1. (American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

   The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.

2. (American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
3. (American spelling) Heat.

• (passionate enthusiasm): fire in the belly, zeal

• fervent
• fervid
• fever

• “fervor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “fervor”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “fervor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• frover

Borrowed from Latin fervōrem. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [fərˈbur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [fərˈvo]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [fərˈbor]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feɾˈvoɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ferˈbor]

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fervor m or (archaic or poetic) f (plural fervors)

1. fervor

• fervorós

• fervent

• “fervor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fervor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fervor”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Learned borrowing from Latin fervōrem.

fervor m (plural fervores)

1. fervor (passionate enthusiasm)
2. the act of boiling

   Synonym: fervura

• afervoar
• fervoroso

• “fervor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “fervor”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From ferveō + -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.wɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.vor]

fervor m (genitive fervōris); third declension

1. boiling heat
2. fermenting
3. ardour, passion, fury
4. intoxication

Third-declension noun.

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

fervor

1. alternative form of fervour

From Latin fervor. Attested from the 14th century.^[1]

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fervor f (plural fervors)

1. fervor

   Synonym: ardor

• fervent
• fervorós

Borrowed from Latin fervōrem.

• Hyphenation: fer‧vor

fervor m (plural fervores)

1. fervour (passionate enthusiasm)

• fervente
• fervoroso

• “fervor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fervor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin fervōrem. Doublet of hervor.

• IPA^(key): /feɾˈboɾ/ [feɾˈβ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: fer‧vor

fervor m (plural fervores)

1. fervor

   Synonym: ardor

• “fervor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025