Latin

Adjective

fērālis m, f ‎(neuter fērāle, comparative fērālior, superlative fērālissimus); third declension

1. (poetic outside post-Augustan prose) of or belonging to the dead or to corpses, funereal
   1. (in particular) of or belonging to the Feralia
   2. (poetic, in the phrase “mēnsis fērālis”) denoting February
2. (transferred sense) deadly, fatal, dangerous

Declension

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (transferred sense: deadly, fatal, dangerous): fūnestus

Derived terms

• Ferālia
• fērāliter (Late Latin)

Descendants

• Italian: ferale
• Portuguese: feral

References

• fērālis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• feralis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fērālis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fērālis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 211-212