SHIVER Copy link • SHIVER 1. v. Transitively, frangere: confringere. [Vid: BREAK.] Intransitively, horrere: horrescere (to shudder with cold, etc.): tremere, contremiscere (to tremble). To shiver all over, totum tremere horrereque; omnibus artibus contremiscere. 2. s. A broken piece, fragmentum: fragmen (poetical): frustum (a little bit). 3. s. A shuddering, horror: cold shivers, febrium frigus; frigus et febris (after aestus et febris, Cic., Cat: 1, 13, 31); from the context, frigus only; e.g., to be attacked with cold shivers, corpus frigore tentatur (Hor., Sat., 1, 1, 80). To have cold shivers, frigore et febri jactari (after Cic., loc. cit.).