feralis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *fēz-ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, sacred place”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /feːˈraː.lis/, [feːˈräːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈra.lis/, [feˈräːlis]
Adjective edit
fērālis (neuter fērāle, comparative fērālior, superlative fērālissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (poetic outside post-Augustan prose) of or belonging to the dead or to corpses, funereal
- (transferred sense) deadly, fatal, dangerous
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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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 edit
- (transferred sense: deadly, fatal, dangerous): fūnestus
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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.
- ^ 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