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ferinus

ferinus · adj

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Where it lives

Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fĕrīnus — Lewis & Short

fĕrīnus, a, um, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to wild animals (mostly poet.; not in Cic., for Inv. 1, 2, 2, is to be read victu fero): vultus, Ov. M. 2, 523: vox, id. Tr. 5, 12, 55: caedes, id. M. 7, 675: caro, venison, game, Sall. J. 18, 1; 89, 7; Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 161: lac, Verg. A. 11, 571: vestis, of the skins of wild beasts, Lucr. 5, 1418: voluptates, brutal sensuality, Gell. 19, 2 init.— Transf.: vita, low, Amm. 26, 6; 15, 3.—

II Subst.: fĕrīna, ae, f., the flesh of wild animals, game, Verg. A. 1, 215; Val. Fl. 3, 569: pomum a ceteris distans sapore quodam ferinae, Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 43.

In the wild

ferinus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.4
ferino Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 1.1.459
ferino Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.1.12
ferino Ovid, Fasti 3.53
ferino Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.IX.p7
ferinos Ausonius, Epistularum 31.219

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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