ferté

Old French

noun

Definitions

violence; force

Etymology

Derived from Latin ferus (wild, untamed, savage, uncultivated).

Origin

Latin

ferus

Gloss

wild, untamed, savage, uncultivated

Concept

Semantic Field

Animals

Ontological Category

Property

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Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

feritas Latin
ferus Latin
ferālis Latin
semifer Latin
fiero Italian
fiero Spanish, Castilian
*ǵʰwer- Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰwéros Proto-Indo-European
fer Old French
fers Old French
feréstec Catalan, Valencian
fiar Norman
fero Old Portuguese
*feros Proto-Italic

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