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ferae

ferae is a Latin form of ferus, meaning “wild, savage; (fera, f.) wild animal, beast”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective or dative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of fera, “wild animal, beast”.

Found 157 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.28.2: Magna vis eorum est et magna velocitas, neque homini neque ferae quam conspexerunt parcunt. Hos studiose foveis captos interficiunt.

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 7.19.6: Ferae inter nos educatae si in silvas eruperunt, aliquid mansuetudinis pristinae retinent tantumque a placidissimis …

All forms of ferus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.