Latin word of the day: fera, ae

Latin word of the day: fera, ae

Part of speech: noun

Declension: first

Gender: feminine

Meaning in English: wild animal, beast

Nominative singular: fera

Nominative plural: ferae

Genitive singular: ferae

Genitive plural: ferarum

Dative singular: ferae

Dative plural: feris

Accusative singular: feram

Accusative plural: feras

Ablative singular: fera

Ablative plural: feris

Vocative singular: fera

Vocative plural: ferae

This word seems still to exist in English as 'feral', as in 'a feral animal'.

A book that is in the public domain, having been published in 1909, called 'Latin for Beginners', by an author named Benjamin L. D'ooge (downloadable from Project Gutenberg), has some great sentences using fera, ae (great in the sense of being able to see the word in the context of a sentence, rather than by itself). This sentence isn't from the book, but is modified from one of the sentences from the book:

Dea lunae feras silvarum amat. The goddess of the moon loves the beasts of the forests.