Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

calenture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ca-len-ture
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.

noun

A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

Example Sentences

"To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us."
"Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate."

Etymology

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: calenture, calentura

Inflected Forms

calentures (plural)

Derived Forms

calentured

Questions

What does calenture mean?: A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
Where does calenture come from?: It is traced to Middle French.

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