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feri

feri is a Latin form of ferus, meaning “wild, savage; (fera, f.) wild animal, beast”.

It can also be a form of ferio, “strike, hit; kill; (foedus ferire) make a treaty”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.5: Horum primo circiter milia XV Rhenum transisse; postea quam agros et cultum et copias Gallorum homines feri ac barbari adamassent, traductos plures; nunc esse in Gallia ad C et XX milium numerum.

Plautus, Casina 2.6.407: Feri malam, ut ille, rursum.

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.