verb intransitive

in-fervesco

2nd PP in-fervescere · 3rd PP inferbŭi · conj. 3rd

to boil down; to boil; to grow hot poetic ••

v. inch. n., to boil down, to boil, to grow hot, be heated: fabae tertia pars ut infervescat, Cato, R. R. 90: mulsum quod inferbuit, Cels. 2, 30: hoc ubi inferbuit, Hor. S. 2, 4, 67: ne infervescat aqua sole, be heated, Plin. 19, 12, 60, § 183.— Poet.: solem infervescere fronti arcet, to burn on the forehead, Sil. 13, 341.

Perseus ID: n23177 Key: infervesco