Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ferine

/ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fer-ine
IPA: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

Archaic

adj

Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Obsolete

noun

A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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) […]"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ferīnus

Usage

Inflected Forms

more ferine (comparative) most ferine (superlative) ferines (plural)

Synonyms

indomite savage tameless feral ferine uplandish untame untamed wild

Questions

How do you pronounce ferine?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/.
What does ferine mean?: Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
Where does ferine come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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