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Latin
Etymology
From ferus (“savage”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
feritās f (genitive feritātis); third declension
- wildness
- savagery, brutality, ferocity
- Synonyms: crūdēlitās, sevēritās, ferōcitās, asperitās
- Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, lēnitās, eleēmosyna
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “feritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “feritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- feritas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “feritas”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.