calenture

[ kal-uhn-cher, -choor ]

noun

1. Pathology. a violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.

calenture

/ ˈkælənˌtjʊə /

noun

1. a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke

Other Words From

• calen·tural calen·turish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of calenture¹

1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent ( ar ) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure

Word History and Origins

Origin of calenture¹

C16: from Spanish calentura fever, ultimately from Latin calēre to be warm

Example Sentences

It is incredible what alienations of mind, and what a very calenture the devil raised in the country upon this odd occasion.

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It never affected her brain, or drove her into furious calenture, but rooted slowly inward, preying on her life quite leisurely.

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Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.

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Calenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.

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And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?

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Related Words

• force
• heat
• light