ferine

From Latin ferīnus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 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) […]

2. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

ferine (plural ferines)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine

ferine

1. feminine plural of ferino

From ferīnus +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feˈriː.neː/, [fɛˈriːneː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈri.ne/, [feˈriːne]

ferīnē (comparative ferīnius, superlative ferīnissimē)

1. brutishly

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feˈriː.ne/, [fɛˈriːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈri.ne/, [feˈriːne]

ferīne

1. vocative masculine singular of ferīnus

ferine f (late Iguvine) (locative singular + -en?)

1. See 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄 (ferine, “tray”).

ferine

1. Romanization of 𐌚𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌍𐌄