feritas

Latin

noun

Definitions

wildness
savagery, brutality, ferocity

Etymology

Affix 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

ferity English
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
ferté Old French
feréstec Catalan, Valencian
fiar Norman
fero Old Portuguese
*feros Proto-Italic