feralis

From Proto-Italic *fēz-ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, sacred place”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈraː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈraː.lis]

fērālis (neuter fērāle, comparative fērālior, superlative fērālissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (poetic outside post-Augustan prose) of, belonging to, or pertaining to the dead, corpses, or death; funereal
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.462–463:

     [...] sōlaque culminibus fērālī carmine būbō
     saepe querī et longās in flētum dūcere vōcēs.

     [Dido experiences dire omens:] and from the rooftops a lone owl with funereal song often lamented and drew out its long mournful wails.

2. (in particular) of or belonging to the Feralia
3. (poetic, in the phrase “mēnsis fērālis”) denoting February
4. (transferred sense) deadly, fatal, dangerous

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• (transferred sense: deadly, fatal, dangerous): fūnestus

• Ferālia
• fērāliter (Late Latin)

• Catalan: feral
• → English: feral
• Italian: ferale
• Portuguese: feral
• Spanish: feral

• “fērālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “feralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fērālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.