ferine

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”).

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 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) . . .

Translations

Wild and menacing

• French: feral (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ferino (it)

Anagrams

• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine

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Italian

Adjective

ferine

1. feminine plural of ferino