ferrer

See also: Ferrer

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ferrārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈre]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feˈreɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

ferrer m (plural ferrers, feminine ferrera, feminine plural ferreres)

1. smith, blacksmith
2. farrier

   Synonym: ferrador

Derived terms

• ferrer cama-roig
• ferrer camanegre
• ferreret
• ferreria

Related terms

• ferro

Further reading

• “ferrer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ferrer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ferrer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ferrer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from fer, or from Late Latin ferrāre (cf. classical ferrātus), from Latin ferrum. Compare Catalan and Portuguese ferrar; Italian ferrare; Spanish herrar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ.ʁe/ ~ /fe.ʁe/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

ferrer

1. to clad in iron (transitive), to be clad in iron (intransitive)
2. to shoe (a horse)
3. to clad in some metal, not necessarily iron

   ferrer d'or

   to clad in gold

4. to hook (a fish)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ferrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ferrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ferrant /fɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /fe.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ferré /fɛ.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ferre /fɛʁ/	ferres /fɛʁ/	ferre /fɛʁ/	ferrons /fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁɔ̃/	ferrez /fɛ.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁe/	ferrent /fɛʁ/
	imperfect	ferrais /fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁɛ/	ferrais /fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁɛ/	ferrait /fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁɛ/	ferrions /fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁjɔ̃/	ferriez /fɛ.ʁje/ or /fe.ʁje/	ferraient /fɛ.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	ferrai /fɛ.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁe/	ferras /fɛ.ʁa/ or /fe.ʁa/	ferra /fɛ.ʁa/ or /fe.ʁa/	ferrâmes /fɛ.ʁam/ or /fe.ʁam/	ferrâtes /fɛ.ʁat/ or /fe.ʁat/	ferrèrent /fɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /fe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	ferrerai /fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁe/	ferreras /fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁa/	ferrera /fɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁa/	ferrerons /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ferrerez /fɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁe/	ferreront /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ferrerais /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ferrerais /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ferrerait /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	ferrerions /fɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ferreriez /fɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁje/	ferreraient /fɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	ferre /fɛʁ/	ferres /fɛʁ/	ferre /fɛʁ/	ferrions /fɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁjɔ̃/	ferriez /fɛ.ʁje/ or /fe.ʁje/	ferrent /fɛʁ/
	imperfect2	ferrasse /fɛ.ʁas/ or /fe.ʁas/	ferrasses /fɛ.ʁas/ or /fe.ʁas/	ferrât /fɛ.ʁa/ or /fe.ʁa/	ferrassions /fɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	ferrassiez /fɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /fe.ʁa.sje/	ferrassent /fɛ.ʁas/ or /fe.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ferre /fɛʁ/	—	ferrons /fɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁɔ̃/	ferrez /fɛ.ʁe/ or /fe.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• gueule ferrée
• voie ferrée

Further reading

• “ferrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.rɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛr.rer]

Verb

ferrer

1. first-person singular imperfect passive subjunctive of ferō