Noun: ferus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | ferī |
| Plural | ferōrum |
Accusative
| Singular | ferum |
| Plural | ferōs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ferus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweh₁r- or *ǵʰwē̆r- (“wild animal”). The intermediate steps are uncertain:
2. *Possibly from Proto-Italic *xʷeros, from earlier *ǵʰweh₁rós, with PIE *-ē- becoming Proto-Italic *-e- because of a shortening of PIE unaccented long vowels before a resonant (a version of a sound change called "Dybo's Law"). This change is also supposed to explain the short vowel in vir. In contrast to vir (from *wiros), this term retained the final -rus, possibly due to analogical influence from the form fera.
3. *Alternatively, Sihler considers the adjective a back-formation from the feminine noun fera (“wild animal, wild beast”), and treats it as possible that Latin continues an original short e-grade of the PIE root.
Verbs referencing "ferus"
Galician Nouns
fero, Russian Nouns
зверь, Ancient Greek Nouns
θήρ, English Nouns
fierasfer.
Translations