verb intransitive

ef-fervo

2nd PP ef-fĕre · conj. 3rd

to boil up; over; boiling with passion poetic •

praes. effervent, Vitr. 2, 6, 5), v. n., to boil up or over (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): in agros Aetna, Verg. G. 1, 471: quatenus in pullos animales vortier ova Cernimus alituum vermesque effervere, qs. to come boiling forth, i. e. to swarm forth, Lucr. 2, 928; cf. Verg. G. 4, 556; id. Dir. 15; Stat. Th. 4, 664.—Hence, effer-vens, entis, P. a., boiling with passion, i. e. fervent, ardent: siquidem laetitia dicitur exsultatio quaedam animi gaudio efferventior eventu rerum expetitarum, Gell. 2, 27, 3.

Perseus ID: n15222 Key: effervo