different between ferine vs nerine

English

Etymology

From Latin fer?nus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???a?n/

Adjective

ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing 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) […]

2. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Translations

Noun

ferine (plural ferines)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Anagrams

• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine

Italian

Adjective

ferine

1. feminine plural of ferino

Latin

Etymology 1

From fer?nus +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri?.ne?/, [f???i?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri.ne/, [f???i?n?]

Adverb

fer?n? (comparative fer?nius, superlative fer?nissim?)

1. brutishly

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri?.ne/, [f???i?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri.ne/, [f???i?n?]

Adjective

fer?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of fer?nus

English

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Etymology

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Noun

nerine (plural nerines)

1. Any of various plants, of the genus Nerine, that are poisonous to cattle.

Anagrams

• Rennie