The corpus record — Latin

feritas

feritas · f

wildness

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 4 · 2.36/10k
De Ira 5 · 2.24/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k

Densest 12 of 43 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

fĕrĭtas — Lewis & Short

fĕrĭtas, ātis, f.ferus,

I wildness, fierceness, savageness, roughness.

I Lit., of beasts or men (rare but class. in prose and poetry): ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae, etc., Cic. Off. 3, 6, 32: tauri, Ov. F. 4, 103: leonis, id. ib. 4, 217: magnitudo animi, remota a communitate conjunctioneque humana feritas est quaedam et immanitas, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 157; cf. id. Div. 1, 29, 60: qui primi dissipatos unum in locum congregarunt eosque ex feritate illa ad justitiam atque mansuetudinem transduxerunt, from the savage state, id. Sest. 42, 91; cf. Ov. F. 3, 281: quorum civitas . . . cultu et feritate non multum a Germanis differebat, Hirt. B. G. 8, 25 fin.; Sen. Clem. 2, 4: neque ipse manus feritate dedisset, * Verg. A. 11, 568 al.—

II Transf., of things (perh. only poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Scythici loci, Ov. Pont. 2, 2, 112; cf.: inamoena viae, Stat. S. 2, 2, 33: mitigata arboris, Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 61: mentae, Col. 11, 3, 37: nimia musti, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 124.

In the wild

feritate Claudian, Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1.230
feritatis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.6e.3
feritate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.2
feritate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.16.p6
feritatis Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 311
feritatem Seneca, De Beneficiis 1.2.5

6 of 97 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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