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infervesco

infervesco, to boil, stew, simmer

in-fervesco, ferbŭi, 3,
  • 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.

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