shiver (v.) Copy link Outline A. Trans.1. commĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to break into small pieces)2. confringo, frēgi, fractum, 33. ēlīdo, 3B. Intrans.I. Lit., to s. or tremble with coldII. To shudder with fear, etc. • shiver (v.): A. Trans.: To dash or break in pieces: 1. commĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to break into small pieces): Cic. Pis. 38, 93: v. to break in pieces. 2. confringo, frēgi, fractum, 3: to s. pots and cups, aulas calicesque c., Pl. Cap. 4, 4, 8: swords s.'d by swords, confracti ensibus enses, Lucan 7, 573. 3. ēlīdo, 3: v. to dash in pieces. B. Intrans.: I. Lit., to s. or tremble with cold: horreo, 2: not to furnish a tunic to the s.ing slave, horrenti tunicam non reddere servo, Juv. 1, 93: and although you yourself will s., quamvis horrebis et ipse, Ov. A. A. 2, 213. II. To shudder with fear, etc.: trĕmo, 3: contrĕmisco, 3: v. to shudder.
shiver (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A small piece broken offII. A shuddering sensation • shiver (subs.): I. A small piece broken off: fragmentum or fragmen, frustum: v. fragment, bit. Phr.: to break anything all to s.s, confringere, comminuere: v. to shiver (A.). II. A shuddering sensation: horror: a cold s. shakes my limbs, mihi frigidus h. membra quatit, Virg. Aen. 3, 29: I call it a s. when the whole body trembles, h. voco, ubi totum corpus intremit, Cels. 3, 3, init.: Cic.: v. shudder. Esp. in expr. cold s.s: horror: Cic. Att. 12, 6, fin.: or expr. by frigus et febris: cf. Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 31 (aestu febrique jactari): to be attacked with cold s.s, frigore tentari, Hor. S. 1, 1, 80: cf. foll. art. (II.).
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.).