ferio

From Italian feria. Doublet of foiro.

• IPA^(key): /feˈrio/

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• Rhymes: -io
• Syllabification: fe‧ri‧o

ferio (accusative singular ferion, plural ferioj, accusative plural feriojn)

1. day off, holiday (day of vacation)

   banka ferio

   bank holiday

2. (in the plural) vacation, holidays

   someraj ferioj

   summer vacation

• feria (“of or related to days off”)
• ferii (“to vacation”)

• festotago (“holiday (day a festival is observed)”)

From Proto-Italic *ferjō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce, strike”) through *bʰér-ye-ti perhaps with root-final laryngeal dropped in a prevocalic position;^[1] the o-grade reflex is attested in forō. Cognate with Albanian bie (“to fall”), Old English ġebered (“crushed, kneaded”), English berry (“to beat, thrash”), Old Armenian բերան (beran), Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρος (phắros, “plough”), φαράω (pharáō).^[2] More at berry.

Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to scrape, to cut”). Compare Middle Irish berna, Old High German berjan, Middle High German berjen, Old English bered, Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬲𐬌𐬠𐬁𐬭𐬀 (tižibāra).

feriō (present infinitive ferīre, perfect active feriī, future active participle ferītūrus); fourth conjugation, no supine stem except in the future active participle

1. to hit, to strike, to smite, to beat, to knock, injure

   Synonyms: mulcō, sauciō, īnfestō, tango, percutio, pello, discutio, pulsō, tundō, accido, affligo, percello, impingo, ico, verbero, vulnerō, secō, noceō, laedō

   ferīrī ā serpente

   to be stung by a snake

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.102–103:

     Tālia iactantī, strīdēns Aquilōne procellā
     vēlum adversa ferit, flūctūsque ad sīdera tollit.

     [Even as Aeneas is] crying out such [great words], a gust howling from the Northwind is striking [his] sail full on, and raising up waves to heaven.
     (The description of waves reaching the sky exemplifies hyperbole. The Northwind: See Aquilo; Anemoi, Anemoi.)

2. to cut, to thrust
3. (with accusative) to kill by striking, to slay, to give a deathblow

   aliquem secūrī ferīre.

   to behead someone with an axe

   Tū illō diē, Jūpiter, populum Rōmānum sīc ferītō, ut ego hunc porcum hīc hodiē feriam, tantōque magis ferītō, quantō magis potes pollēsque.

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4. (money) to strike, to stamp, to coin

   Asses sextantario pondere ferire.

   To strike asses only the sixth part of a pound.

   • moneyer; in the Roman Republic, the abbreviation III. VIR. AAAFF. or even III. VIR. A.P.F. (tresviri ad pecuniam feriundum) was written on the coins, but it stood for:

     Tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo.

     Three men for striking and casting bronze, silver and copper coins.

5. to make a deal or contract or compact, covenant, or treaty

   Synonyms: ī̆cō, percutiō, pacīscor, pangō

6. (figuratively) to strike, reach, affect
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.518:

     clāmor Aventīnī saxa propinqua ferit

     The cry strikes the nearby rocks of Aventine Hill.
     (See: Aventine Hill.)

• Perfect and passive forms are rare. Perfect forms and perfect passive participle are usually supplied by its synonym, percutio. Sometimes ictus, the perfect passive participle of īcō, is used.
• The verb form feriunt (“they strike”) had the archaic spelling ferinunt.

• secūrī feriō (I behead)
• foedus feriō (I make a compact, covenant or treaty)
• amōrum turpissimōrum foedera feriō (I form illicit connections)

• “ferio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ferio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to beat one's brow: frontem ferire, percutere
    
  • to slaughter victims: victimas (oxen), hostias (smaller animals, especially sheep) immolare, securi ferire, caedere, mactare
    
  • to execute a person, cut off his head: securi percutere, ferire aliquem
    
  • to conclude a treaty, an alliance: foedus facere (cum aliquo), icere, ferire
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

ferio

1. first-person singular present indicative of feriar