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ferine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
   • 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) […] 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 162:
2. (obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

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Synonyms

ferine · savage · uplandish · feral · savage · tameless · indomite · untame · wild · untamed · indomite · tameless

Translations (2)

fr feral (wild and menacing) · it ferino (wild and menacing)

ferine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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