Etymology

ferous

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Today it means: wild; savage; feral Full definition →

Latin ferus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromferus
  2. English todayferous

From Latin ferus. See fierce and feral. By surface analysis, Latin fer- + -ous.

Words from the same roots

Latinferus all →

fierceferae naturaefierasfer

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