# fera
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin fera.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈfe.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈfe.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -eɾa

### Noun

fera f (plural feres)
* wild animal, beast

#### Related terms

* fer
* ferí

### Adjective

fera
* feminine singular of fer (“wild, untamed”)

### Further reading

* “fera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “fera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈfera]
* Rhymes: -era
* Hyphenation: fer‧a

### Adjective

fera (accusative singular feran, plural feraj, accusative plural ferajn)
* iron (attributive)

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fə.ʁa/, /fʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fera
* third-person singular future of faire
    Demain il fera beau.
       Tomorrow it will be lovely. (the weather)

## Gothic
### Romanization

fēra
* Romanization of 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌰

## Japanese
### Romanization

fera
* Rōmaji transcription of フェラ

## Latin
### Etymology

Nominalization of the feminine forms of ferus. For the gender, perhaps compare the semantically similar bēstia f, bēlua f, and pecus f.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfe.ra/, [ˈfɛrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfe.ra/, [ˈfɛːrä]

### Noun

fera f (genitive ferae); first declension
* wild animal, beast

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: fera
* Italian: fiera
* Portuguese: fera
* Romanian: fiară
* Spanish: fiera

### References

* “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “fera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* fera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* fera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ferire, from Latin ferire.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛː.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɛːra

### Verb

fera (imperfect jferi, past participle ferit)
* to injure, wound
    Synonyms: darab, ġeraħ

#### Related terms

* ferita

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfera/

### Noun

fera f
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin fera, from ferus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɛ.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
* Hyphenation: fe‧ra

### Noun

fera f (plural feras)
* beast (non-human animal)
    Synonyms: besta, bicho, criatura
* (Brazil, figurative) beast (violent person)

#### Derived terms

* atirar às feras
* besta-fera
* ferinha
* ficar uma fera

### Noun

fera m or f (plural feras)
* (Brazil, colloquial) skillful person
* (Pernambuco, colloquial) freshman
    Synonyms: caloiro, bicho

### Adjective

fera m or f (plural feras)
* (Brazil, colloquial) skillful

### Adjective

fera
* feminine singular of fero

### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:fera.

### See also

* feroz
* feral

### Further reading

* “fera”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “fera”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “fera”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “fera”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “fera”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Tetum
### Verb

fera
* to split
* to crack, to burst open