ferine

English

Etymology

From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Adjective

ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 162:

     the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]

2. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Translations

wild and menacing

French: feral (fr) Italian: ferino (it)

Noun

ferine (plural ferines)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Anagrams

• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine

Italian

Adjective

ferine

1. feminine plural of ferino

Latin

Etymology 1

From ferīnus +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɛˈriː.neː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈriː.ne]

Adverb

ferīnē (comparative ferīnius, superlative ferīnissimē)

1. brutishly

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɛˈriː.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈriː.ne]

Adjective

ferīne

1. vocative masculine singular of ferīnus

Umbrian

Noun

ferine f (late Iguvine) (locative singular + -en?)

1. See 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄 (ferine, “tray”).

Romanization

ferine

1. Romanization of 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄