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FERINE

Definitions: FERINE

FERINE

Adjective

1. Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.

Noun

1. A wild beast; a beast of prey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FERINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Etymology: Ferine \Fe"rine\, adjective. [Latin expression ferinus, from ferus wild. See Fierce.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonyms within Context: FERINE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Malevolence

Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: FERINE

Language Translations for "FERINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неопитомен (feral, undomesticated, untamed), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild). (various references)

   

Czech

  

divoký (boisterous, feral, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, obstreperous, truculent, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wild, wildcat). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferocious, fierce, frenzied, game, gothic, phrenetic, rabid, ramage, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, savage, tameless, truculent, wild). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ferino (feral). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erinefay

   

Portuguese

  

relativo a férias (vacationist). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), bestial (beastly, bestial, bestially, brutally, brutish, feral). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дикий (farouche, ferae naturae, feral, natural, orgiastic, savage, tameless, untamed, wild). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

divlji (feral, unlicensed, wild, wildcat). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ferino (savage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förvildad (feral, undomesticated, unkept, weed-grown, wild), vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

неприручений (tameless, unreclaimed), злоякісний (cancerous, malign, malignant, pernicious), дикий (barbarian, barbarous, feral, natural, orgiastic, savage, wild). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không c y cấy cục súc; hung d (feral), hoang dã hoang vu (feral). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FERINE

Misspellings

"FERINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerine, derine, efine, efrie, errine, Faine, fairen, Falrinne, Faraneh, farine, Farini, Farnie, Fearne, Fegina, fegine, feien, feire, femine, feran, ferein, feren, ferice, Ferie, ferile, ferin, ferina, Ferlini, ferne, Fernel, Fernet, Fernex, Fernilee, feron, ferone, Ferrano, ferrene, Ferrigno, Ferrin, ferrine, Ferrini, ferrire, fevine, Fifine, Fiorini, Foraine, forien, frein, Freinkel, fresne, Freunde, Freyne, Fucine, furane, Furiani, furline, nerine, Verine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FERINE"

Words rhyming with "FERINE" (pronounced 'Fe"rine'): Antipyrine, Caprine, Chelerythrine, Chlorine, Dasyurine, Euchlorine, Igasurine, Kairine, Lampyrine, Larine, Myrmotherine, Neurine, Nodosarine, Vitrine, viverrine, Xenurine, Zooerythrine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FERINE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: refine.

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r"

-1 letter: finer, infer.

-2 letters: erne, fere, fern, fine, fire, firn, free, neif, reef, reif, rein, rife.

-3 letters: ere, ern, fee, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, ire, nee, ree, ref, rei, rif, rin.

-4 letters: ef, en, er, if, in, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r"
 

+1 letter: definer, feigner, fernier, firemen, freeing, reefing, refined, refiner, refines.

 

+2 letters: befinger, befriend, befringe, definers, feigners, ferniest, fernlike, fevering, fineries, fingered, fingerer, flanerie, fleering, freezing, frenetic, frenzied, frenzies, friended, infecter, inferred, inferrer, infester, niffered, redefine, refiners, refinery, reinfect, reinfuse, rifeness, riflemen.

 

+3 letters: befingers, befriends, befringed, befringes, benefiter, briefness, deferring, different, enserfing, farseeing, felonries, ferneries, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fieriness, fingerers, firestone, fishermen, flaneries, foreigner, frenetics, hyperfine, infecters, inferable, inference, inferrers, infertile, infesters, infielder, interface, interfere, interfile, interfuse, predefine, redefined, redefines, redefying, refecting, refection, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, refinance, reflexing, reflexion, refrained, refueling, refusenik, reinfects, reinflate, reinforce, reinfused, reinfuses, reunified, reunifies, stiffener, superfine, telfering, unbriefed, unfertile, unfreeing, unrefined.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FERINE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 45 52 49 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .    .-.    ..    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0052 0049 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

403952434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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