februum

From Proto-Italic *feɣʷrwom (“belonging to an offering, means of purification”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰrwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰógʷʰrus (“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 noun (neuter).

• 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 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 269
• 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, →ISBN, page 208