feritas Latin · revision 9526

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰwer-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɛ.rɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfɛː.ri.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''feritās''' ''f'' (genitive feritātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ferus]] “wild” with the suffix [[-tās]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of animals it was wildness, the untamed state, as in Livy, and fierceness, as in Ovid and Seneca's lions and tigers that never lose it; of people brutality, savagery, as in Cicero; and of places wildness, as in Ovid and Pliny the Elder, who says the Black Sea was once called ''Axenus'' from its inhospitable wildness.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant savagery, fierceness.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it also as a place-name.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''ferità'' and French ''fierté''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of savagery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of wildness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Wildness, untamed state.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|ferocity|alt=Ferocity]]; brutality, savagery.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The wildness of a place.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ferus]]

+ * [[ferōx]]

+ * [[ferōcitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}