Calenture (noun)
kal-en-chur
A violent fever with delirium, affecting persons in the tropics.
1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent ( ar ) to heat (from Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot)
Example sentences
“I think calenture is likely to become common in more places than the tropics!”
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