Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
An acute fever. · An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. · The cold fit or rigor of an intermittent fever. · A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”). Doublet of acute.
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