The corpus record — Latin

efferus

efferus · adj

very wild

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Where it lives

Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

ef-fĕrus — Lewis & Short

ef-fĕrus, a, um, adj.,

I very wild, fierce, savage (poet. and post-class.; freq. in Verg.): proles, Lucr. 2, 604; cf. juventus, Verg. A. 8, 6: Dido, id. ib. 4, 642: Chimaera, id. ib. 7, 787: mens Caci, id. ib. 8, 205; cf.: vis animi, id. ib. 10, 898: corda, Val. Fl. 1, 798: ira, id. 5, 517: virtus Bebrycis, id. 2, 648: facta tyranni, Verg. A. 8, 484: facinus, Sen. Phoen. 264; Flor. 4, 12, 12; 4, 12, 48; Sen. Element. 1, 13, 4.

In the wild

efferum Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.25.12.11
efferus Statius, Thebais 5.472
efferum Seneca, De Clementia 1.13.5
efferus Statius, Thebais 6.430
efferum Seneca, Phoenissae 1
efferum Seneca, Phaedra 1

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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