ferine

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English

Etymology

From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)

  1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 162:
      the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]
  2. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Translations

Noun

ferine (plural ferines)

  1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

ferine

  1. feminine plural of ferino

Latin

Etymology 1

From ferīnus +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

Adverb

ferīnē (comparative ferīnius, superlative ferīnissimē)

  1. brutishly

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ferīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of ferīnus

Umbrian

Noun

ferine f (late Iguvine) (locative singular + -en?)

  1. See 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄 (ferine, “tray”).

Romanization

ferine

  1. Romanization of 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄
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