Etymograph

English

effervesce

Effervesce comes from Latin effervesco ‘to boil up’, from fervēscō ‘to grow hot’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰrewh₁-1‘to boil’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferwejō1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferweō1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferveō2‘to be hot’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfervēscō3‘to grow hot’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeffervesco4as effervescere‘to boil up’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1846effervesce4

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin ferveo
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin fervesco
  3. 3 Wiktionary, Latin effervesco
  4. 4 Wiktionary, English effervesce
  5. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The New Adam and Eve: “After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle,…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰrewh₁-Wiktionary, Latin ferveo‘to boil’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferwejōWiktionary, Latin ferveoreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferweōWiktionary, Latin ferveoreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferveōWiktionary, Latin fervesco‘to be hot’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfervēscōWiktionary, Latin effervesco‘to grow hot’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeffervescoWiktionary, English effervesceas effervescere‘to boil up’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1846effervesceWiktionary, English effervesce. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The New Adam and Eve: “After some remonstrances, she takes up a champagne bottle,…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil’

brand, burn, bread, purple, brew, bourbon, broth, bourne, brunt, brim, bren, broil, porphyry, briny, purpura, 39 more

through Proto-Italic *ferweō

fervently, 7 more

through Latin ferveō ‘to be hot’

fervor, ferment, fervent, 8 more

Today it means

verb To emit small bubbles of dissolved gas; to froth or fizz.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “effervesce”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin ferveo, Latin fervesco, Latin effervesco. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- / effervesce

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