feralis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. (poetic outside post-Augustan prose) of or belonging to the dead or to corpses, funereal
    1. (in particular) of or belonging to the Feralia
    2. (poetic, in the phrase “mēnsis fērālis”) denoting February
  2. (transferred sense) deadly, fatal, dangerous

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative fērālis fērāle fērālēs fērālia
Genitive fērālis fērālium
Dative fērālī fērālibus
Accusative fērālem fērāle fērālēs
fērālīs		 fērālia
Ablative fērālī fērālibus
Vocative fērālis fērāle fērālēs fērālia

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

Derived terms
  • Ferālia
  • fērāliter (Late Latin)

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

References
  • “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.
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fērālis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 211-212
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