feritas
Latin
Etymology
From ferus (“savage”) + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛ.rɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.ri.t̪as]
Noun
feritās f (genitive feritātis); third declension
- wildness
- savagery, brutality, ferocity
- Synonyms: crūdēlitās, sevēritās, ferōcitās, asperitās
- Antonyms: misericordia, pietās, lēnitās, eleēmosyna
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | feritās | feritātēs |
| genitive | feritātis | feritātum |
| dative | feritātī | feritātibus |
| accusative | feritātem | feritātēs |
| ablative | feritāte | feritātibus |
| vocative | feritās | feritātēs |
Descendants
References
- “feritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “feritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "feritas", 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)
- feritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.