Where does “calenture” come from?
calenture (Middle French) comes from Spanish calentura, from Spanish calentar, from Spanish -ar, from Old Spanish -ar, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
Ancestry of “calenture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | calentura | fever, calenture; horniness; cold sore |
| 2 | Spanish | calentar | to heat, to warm up; to turn on; to warm up |
| 3 | Spanish | -ar | In adjectives, indicating membership or status;... |
| 4 | Old Spanish | -ar | indicates membership or status |
| 5 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |