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Lithuanian
Etymology
Possibly cognate with Latin ferus (“wild”).
Adjective
žiaurùs m (feminine žiaurì, neuter žiaurù)
- cold, brisk
- (figurative) cruel, ferocious (of character)
Declension
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of žiaurus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of žiaurus
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References
- “žiaurus”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “žiaurus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517