ferine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/
Adjective[edit]
ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)
- (now rare) Pertaining to wild animals; feral.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 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) . . .
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ferine f
- Feminine plural form of ferino
