LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

feritās

feritās f (genitive feritātis)
Classical[ˈfɛ.rɪ.taːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈfɛː.ri.tas]

Meaning

  1. wildness
  2. savagery, brutality, ferocity

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Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativeferitāsferitātēs
genitiveferitātisferitātum
dativeferitātīferitātibus
accusativeferitātemferitātēs
ablativeferitāteferitātibus
vocativeferitāsferitātēs

fĕrĭtas, ātis, f. ferus,
I. wildness, fierceness, savageness, roughness.
I. Lit., of beasts or men (rare but class. in prose and poetry): ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 6, 32: tauri, Ov. F. 4, 103: leonis, id. ib. 4, 217: magnitudo animi, remota a communitate conjunctioneque humana feritas est quaedam et immanitas, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 157; cf. id. Div. 1, 29, 60: qui primi dissipatos unum in locum congregarunt eosque ex feritate illa ad justitiam atque mansuetudinem transduxerunt, from the savage state, id. Sest. 42, 91; cf. Ov. F. 3, 281: quorum civitas . . . cultu et feritate non multum a Germanis differebat, Hirt. B. G. 8, 25 fin.; Sen. Clem. 2, 4: neque ipse manus feritate dedisset, * Verg. A. 11, 568 al.—
II. Transf., of things (perh. only poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Scythici loci, Ov. Pont. 2, 2, 112; cf.: inamoena viae, Stat. S. 2, 2, 33: mitigata arboris, Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 61: mentae, Col. 11, 3, 37: nimia musti, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 124.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin feritās From ferus (“savage”) + -tās.

Descendants
  • Catalanferedat
  • Englishferity
  • Frenchfierté
  • Italianferità
  • Spanishferidad

Quick answers

What does feritās mean in Latin?
feritās, a noun, means “wildness; savagery, brutality, ferocity”.
What is the genitive of feritās?
The genitive singular is feritātis. feritās is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce feritās?
In classical Latin, [ˈfɛ.rɪ.taːs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈfɛː.ri.tas].