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Borrowed from Middle French férocité, from Latin ferocitas, from ferox (“fierce”), from ferus (“wild, savage, fierce”).
- (General American) IPA(key): /fəˈɹɑsɪti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɹɒsɪti/
- Rhymes: -ɒsɪti
ferocity (countable and uncountable, plural ferocities)
- The condition of being ferocious.
The condition of being ferocious
- Bulgarian: свирепост (bg) f (svirepost)
- Finnish: raivokkuus (fi)
- French: acharnement (fr) m
- German: Grausamkeit (de) f
- Greek: αγριότητα (el) f (agriótita)
- Latin: ferōcitās f, saevitia f
- Macedonian: сви́репост f (svírepost), же́стокост f (žéstokost)
- Maori: taratutū
- Romanian: ferocitate (ro) f
- Russian: свирепость (ru) f (svirepostʹ)
- “ferocity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ferocity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ferocity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.