ferina

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

ferina

  1. feminine singular of ferí

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feˈri.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fe‧rì‧na

Adjective

ferina

  1. feminine singular of ferino

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of carō ferīna (meat of wild animals).

Noun

ferīna f (genitive ferīnae); first declension

  1. 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.

singular plural
nominative ferīna ferīnae
genitive ferīnae ferīnārum
dative ferīnae ferīnīs
accusative ferīnam ferīnās
ablative ferīnā ferīnīs
vocative ferīna ferīnae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

ferīna

  1. inflection of ferīnus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

ferīnā

  1. 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

  1. feminine singular of ferino

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feˈɾina/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: fe‧ri‧na

Adjective

ferina

  1. feminine singular of ferino