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feritate

feritate is a Latin form of feritas, meaning “wildness, barbaric/savage/uncultivated state; savagery, ferocity”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.25.2: quorum civitas propter Germaniae vicinitatem cotidianis exercitata bellis cultu et feritate non multum a Germanis differebat neque imperata umquam nisi exercitu coacta faciebat.

All forms of feritas (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.