BOIL Copy link • BOILv. n., fervere (also figuratively of the passions and of men): aestuare (to swell and roar with heat; also figuratively): bullare, bullire (to bubble up). To begin to boil, ebullire, effervescere. To boil enough, defervescere. Boiling hot, fervens. The meats boil, cibaria bullant. To boil over, exundare (of boiling water, Plin., 31, 2, 19). To make to boil, fervefacere. The sea boils, aestuat mare. To boil with envy, invidia aestuare. To boil with anger, ira fervere; saevire: v. a., fervefacere, infervefacere (make to boil): coquere (cook by boiling). To boil down, decoquere (e.g., acetum ad quartas, Col.). To boil a thing in something, aliquid coquere in or ex aliqua re (e.g., in lacte, ex oleo); incoquere aliqua re or cum aliqua re (e.g., aqua ferventi, cum aqua). To boil quite, percoquere. To boil meats, cibum or cibaria coquere; cibum parare or comparare (general term of preparing meat, etc., for food). Boiled, elixus (opposed to assus): coctus (dressed by fire, opposed to crudus).