Etymology

calenture

C3A1L1E1N1T1U1R1E1

Today it means: A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics. Full definition →

Middle French calenture ← Spanish calentura
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromcalentura
  2. Middle French · derived fromcalenture
  3. English todaycalenture

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.