Ferine

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪəɹaɪn/

Origin

From Latin ferīnus, from fera ("wild animal").

Full definition of ferine

Adjective

1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild animals; feral.
• 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) . . .

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