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Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
ferina
- feminine singular of ferí
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feˈri.na/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Hyphenation: fe‧rì‧na
Adjective
ferina
- feminine singular of ferino
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ellipsis of carō ferīna (“meat of wild animals”).
Noun
ferīna f (genitive ferīnae); first declension
- game meat, venison
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.214–215:
- Tum vīctū revocant vīrēs, fūsīque per herbam
implentur veteris Bacchī pinguisque ferīnae.- Then they restore their strength with the provisions, and, stretched on the grass, they fill up on old wine and fat venison.
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 13.9:
- Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs
- The fruit itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
ferīna
- inflection of ferīnus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
ferīnā
- ablative feminine singular of ferīnus
References
- “ferinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ferinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Adjective
ferina
- feminine singular of ferino
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feˈɾina/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: fe‧ri‧na
Adjective
ferina
- feminine singular of ferino