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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fēz-ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, sacred place”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
fērālis (neuter fērāle, comparative fērālior, superlative fērālissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (poetic outside post-Augustan prose) of, belonging to, or pertaining to the dead, corpses, or death; funereal
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.462–463:
- sōlaque culminibus fērālī carmine būbō
saepe querī et longās in flētum dūcere vōcēs.- and from the rooftops a lone owl with funereal song often lamented and drew out its long mournful wails.
- (in particular) of or belonging to the Feralia
- (poetic, in the phrase “mēnsis fērālis”) denoting February
- (transferred sense) deadly, fatal, dangerous
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Synonyms
- (transferred sense: deadly, fatal, dangerous): fūnestus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “fērālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “feralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fērālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fērālis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 211-212