fera

Inherited from Latin fera.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfe.ɾa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾa

fera f (plural feres)

1. wild animal, beast

• fer
• ferí

fera

1. feminine singular of fer (“wild, untamed”)

• “fera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfera/

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• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: fe‧ra

fera (accusative singular feran, plural feraj, accusative plural ferajn)

1. iron (attributive)

• IPA^(key): /fə.ʁa/, /fʁa/

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fera

1. third-person singular future of faire

   Demain, il fera beau.

   Tomorrow, it will be lovely. (the weather)

fēra

1. romanization of 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌰

fera

1. Rōmaji transcription of フェラ

Nominalization of the feminine forms of ferus. For the gender, perhaps compare the semantically similar bēstia f, bēlua f, and pecus f.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.ra]

fera f (genitive ferae); first declension

1. wild animal, beast

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: fera
• Italian: fiera
• Portuguese: fera
• Romanian: fiară
• Spanish: fiera

• “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
    

Borrowed from Italian ferire, from Latin ferire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛː.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

fera (imperfect jferi, past participle ferit)

1. to injure, wound

   Synonyms: darab, ġeraħ

• (Northumbrian) fœra

From Proto-West Germanic *fōrijō, from *fōrijan +‎ *-ō.

fera m

1. companion, associate

Weak:

• ġefēra

• IPA^(key): /ˈfera/

fera f

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From Latin fera, from ferus.

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Hyphenation: fe‧ra

fera f (plural feras)

1. beast (non-human animal)

   Synonyms: besta, bicho, criatura

2. (Brazil, figurative) beast (violent person)

fera m or f (plural feras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) skillful person
2. (Pernambuco, colloquial) freshman

   Synonyms: caloiro, bicho

fera m or f (plural feras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) skillful

fera

1. feminine singular of fero

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fera.

• feroz
• feral

• “fera”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fera”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “fera”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “fera”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fera”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from German Fähre. Displaced Old Polish prom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: fe‧ra

fera f

1. ferry (boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another)

   Synonym: flōs

• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “fera”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 210

fera

1. to split
2. to crack, to burst open