Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 693.ferus on page 693
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ferus wild
ferus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means wild.
Definitions for ferus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
wild, uncivilized, fierce
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A wild animal, beast, creature.
Adjective
- 1
(of animals, birds) Undomesticated, not tame, wild. (b) (of plants, fruits) uncultivated, wild. (c) (of land) uncultivated, untilled, wild; (also, of a smell) suggestive of the wilds.
- 2
(of persons) Uncivilized, barbarous, rude, rough. (b) (of a way of life, etc.).
- 3
(poet.) Of or for wild animals; also, of barbarians.
- 4
Not amenable to restraint, disobedient, unruly; high-spirited, unsubdued.
- 5
(of persons) Aggressive, fierce, ferocious, warlike; (of wild animals) savage. (b) (of sounds or voices). (c) (of actions).
Sentences with ferus
Latin to English
Nescis quid sit amor, iuvenis, si ferre recusas immitam dominam coniugiumque ferum.Compare You don't know what love is, young man, if you will not bear with an ungentle mistress or a shrewish wife.
Firmissimum hoc adferri videtur, cur does esse credamus, quod nulla gens tam fera, nemo omnium tam est immanis, cuius mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio.Compare This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of god, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the would so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.Compare When Greece had been enslaved she made a slave of her rough conqueror, and introduced the arts into Latium, still rude.
Ubi nox appeto, propeto rivus aqua, sine munimentum, sine custodia, passim fera ritus sterno.Compare When night approaches, they throw themselves down promiscuously like wild beasts, near running streams, without a fortification, without sentinels.
Declension table for ferus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | ferus | ferī |
| Gen. | ferī | ferōrum |
| Dat. | ferō | ferīs |
| Acc. | ferum | ferōs |
| Voc. | fere | ferī |
| Abl. | ferō | ferīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 476.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 693.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
Bibliography
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Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "ferus, fera, ferum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/ferus-fera-ferum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 476.on page 476
