februum

From Proto-Italic *fexʷrwos (“belonging to an offering, means of purification”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰrwos (“belonging to a burning, an offering”), from *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, warm”), cognate with febris.

februum n (genitive februī); second declension

1. means of purification, expiatory offerings

Second declension.

• Februa
• februārius

• februum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• februum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• februum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• februum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 268
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “februum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 208