CALENTURE


Meaning of CALENTURE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈka-lən-ˌchu̇r ]

noun

Etymology: Spanish calentura, from calentar to heat, from Latin calent-, calens, present participle of calēre to be warm — more at lee

Date: 1582

: a fever formerly supposed to affect sailors in the tropics

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