ferinus

Latin

Etymology

From ferus (“wild, savage; wild animal”) +‎ -īnus (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.rɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.ri.nus]

Adjective

ferīnus (feminine ferīna, neuter ferīnum, comparative ferīnior, superlative ferinīssimus, adverb ferīnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or belonging to wild animals
2. brutish

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ferīnus	ferīna	ferīnum		ferīnī	ferīnae	ferīna
genitive	ferīnī	ferīnae	ferīnī		ferīnōrum	ferīnārum	ferīnōrum
dative	ferīnō	ferīnae	ferīnō		ferīnīs
accusative	ferīnum	ferīnam	ferīnum		ferīnōs	ferīnās	ferīna
ablative	ferīnō	ferīnā	ferīnō		ferīnīs
vocative	ferīne	ferīna	ferīnum		ferīnī	ferīnae	ferīna

Related terms

• ferōx

Related terms

• fera
• feritās
• sēmifer

Descendants

• Catalan: ferí
• French: férin
• Galician: ferino
• Italian: ferino
• Portuguese: ferino
• Spanish: ferino

References

• “ferinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ferinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.