fera

Inherited from Latin fera.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfe.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -eɾa

fera f (plural feres)

1. wild animal, beast

• fer
• ferí

fera

1. feminine singular of fer (“wild, untamed”)

• “fera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kúɪda (“applicative of *-kúa (“to die”)”). By surface analysis, -fa (“to die”) +‎ -era (“applicative suffix for monosyllabic stems”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ɽa/

-fera (infinitive kuféra)

1. Applicative form of -fa
   1. to die for someone
2. to die
3. to break down (cars)

• kadzifere (“a daring person who's not afraid to die”)

• Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford University Press

• IPA^(key): /ˈfera/

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• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: fe‧ra

fera (accusative singular feran, plural feraj, accusative plural ferajn)

1. iron (attributive)

• IPA^(key): /fə.ʁa/, /fʁa/

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fera

1. third-person singular future of faire

   Demain, il fera beau.

   Tomorrow, it will be lovely. (the weather)

fēra

1. romanization of 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌰

fera

1. Rōmaji transcription of フェラ

For the gender, perhaps compare the semantically similar bēstia f, bēlua f, and pecus f.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.ra]

fera

1. inflection of ferus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

fera f (genitive ferae); first declension

1. wild animal; beast

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: fera
• Italian: fiera
• Portuguese: fera
• Romanian: fiară
• Spanish: fiera

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛ.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.ra]

ferā

1. ablative feminine singular of ferus

• “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fera”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
    

Borrowed from Italian ferire, from Latin ferire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛː.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

fera (imperfect jferi, past participle ferit)

1. to injure, wound

   Synonyms: darab, ġeraħ

• fœ̄ra — Anglian

From Proto-West Germanic *fōrijō, from *fōrijan +‎ *-ō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -ē.rɑ

fēra m (West Saxon)

1. companion, associate

• According to the Dictionary of Old English, this word occurs only six times, and four of these are in its Anglian form fœ̄ra (three in the Northumbrian Lindisfarne Gospels and one in the Mercian section of the Rushworth Gospels. The other two attestations are in West Saxon.
• Although unattested, the laws of sound change suggest that the Kentish form ought to have been *fœ̄ra early on, and then later *fēra.
• The forms in the table below marked with * reflect the expected yet unattested forms in West Saxon. The forms in this table without * reflect the few forms directly attested in West Saxon.

Weak n-stem:

• ġefēra

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fera”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfera/

fera f

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From Latin fera, from ferus.

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Hyphenation: fe‧ra

fera f (plural feras)

1. beast (non-human animal)

   Synonyms: besta, bicho, criatura

2. (Brazil, figurative) beast (violent person)

fera m or f (plural feras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) skillful person
2. (Pernambuco, colloquial) freshman

   Synonyms: caloiro, bicho

fera m or f (plural feras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) skillful

fera

1. feminine singular of fero

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fera.

• feroz
• feral

• “fera”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fera”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “fera”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “fera”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “fera”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Late Latin feria (“festival, holiday”), from Latin feriae, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”). Cognate with Galician feira, Portuguese feira ~ féria, Spanish feria, French foire, Italian fiera and English fair.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ɾa/, [ˈfɛ.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Hyphenation: fè‧ra

fera f (plural feri)

1. market

   Synonym: mircatu

2. fair

   Synonym: sacra

Borrowed from German Fähre. Displaced Old Polish prom.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: fe‧ra

fera f

1. ferry (boat or ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another)

   Synonym: flōs

• Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “fera”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 210

fera

1. to split
2. to crack, to burst open