ferina

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈɾi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feˈɾi.na]

Adjective

ferina

1. feminine singular of ferí

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: fe‧rì‧na

Adjective

ferina

1. feminine singular of ferino

Anagrams

• farine, farnie, fraine, frenai

Latin

Pronunciation

• ferīna: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feˈriː.na/, [fɛˈriːnä]
• ferīna: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈri.na/, [feˈriːnä]
• ferīnā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feˈriː.naː/, [fɛˈriːnäː]
• ferīnā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈri.na/, [feˈriːnä]

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of carō ferīna (“meat of wild animals”).

Noun

ferīna f (genitive ferīnae); first declension

1. game meat, venison
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.214–215:

     Tum vīctū revocant vīrēs, fūsīque per herbam
     implentur veteris Bacchī pinguisque ferīnae.

     Then they restore their strength with the provisions, and, stretched on the grass, they fill up on old wine and fat venison.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.9:

     Pōmum ipsum grande, dūrum, horridum et ā cēterīs generibus distāns sapōre quōdam ferīnae in aprīs

     The fruit [of the syagrus tree] itself is large, hard, rough, and different in taste from every other kind, with a certain something of the meat in wild boars.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ferīna	ferīnae
Genitive	ferīnae	ferīnārum
Dative	ferīnae	ferīnīs
Accusative	ferīnam	ferīnās
Ablative	ferīnā	ferīnīs
Vocative	ferīna	ferīnae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

ferīna

1. inflection of ferīnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

ferīnā

1. ablative feminine singular of ferīnus

References

• “ferinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Adjective

ferina

1. feminine singular of ferino

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feˈɾina/ [feˈɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: fe‧ri‧na

Adjective

ferina

1. feminine singular of ferino