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feverfew (n.)
Old English
feferfuge
, from Late Latin
febrifugia
, from Latin
febris
"fever" +
fugare
"put to flight" (see
febrifuge
). So called for its medical usage. The modern English word probably is reborrowed from an Anglo-French source.