Fermentum, huius fermenti, n. g. Plin. Leauen.Iacêre in fermento, vel esse, pér translationem.Plaut.To bee al to be shrewed: to be verie angrie or melancholy: to haue piste on a nettle.In fermentum congerere terram. Colu. To breake the earth that it may rotte.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fermentum, i, n. [contr. for fervimentum, from fervo, ferveo], that which causes fermentation, leaven, yeast, ferment.I.Lit., Plin. 18, 11, 26, 102; 18, 7, 12, 68: panis sine fermento,
unleavened bread
, Cels. 2, 24; 30; Vulg. Levit. 2, 4.—B.Transf.1.That which loosens the soil, Plin. 17, 21, 35, 159; cf. Col. 4, 1, 7.—2.A drink made of fermented barley, malt liquor, beer, Verg. G. 3, 380.—II.Trop., anger, passion (poet. and very rare): (uxor) nunc in fermento tota est, ita turget mihi, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 17; id. Merc. 5, 3, 3.—Poet. transf., of the cause of anger or vexation: accipe et istud Fermentum tibi habe, Juv. 3, 188.