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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 7 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• fierce:
      1. 1. atrox, ōcis (dark, unrelentingly violent or cruel): f. hatred, a. odium, Ov. Met. 9, 274: a f. (obstinate and sanguinary) engagement, a. certamen, Liv. 3, 1: very f. wild bulls, atrocissimi tauri silvestres, Plin. 8, 21, 30. Fig.: the f. hour of the blazing dog-star, a. hora caniculae flagrantis, Hor. Od. 3, 13, 9.
      2. 2. saevus (raging, cruel): f. lions, s. leones, Lucr.: Cic.: v. cruel.
      3. 3. fĕrox, ōcis (implying untutored or impetuous courage: often in good sense: cf. ferocitas juvenum, Cic. Sen. 10, 33: v. high-spirited): a f. boar, f. aper, Virg. Aen. 10, 711: a serpent f. with pain, serpens dolore f., Ov. Met. 3, 68. Often in sense of overbearing, presumptuous: q. v.
      4. 4. fĕrus: v. wild.
      5. 5. trux, trŭcŭlentus (both having chief reference to appearance): v. ferocious.
      6. 6. torvus: v. stern, grim.
      7. 7. asper, ĕra, ĕrum (lit. rough; hence, actively hostile, pugnacious): f. (implacably hostile) Juno, a. Juno, Virg. Aen. 1, 279: very f. and warlike (Carthage), studiis asperrima belli, Virg. Aen. 1, 14: f. hatred, a. odia, Virg. Aen. 2, 96.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FIERCE
ferox (fierce, with reference to character): furens (in a state of fury or passion): furiosus (full of rage; raging, in a physical sense): furibundus (uttering or displaying signs of rage): saevus (cruel, savage): torvus: trux (of the looks of him who is in a passion, then of the person himself who has a fierce look). The fierce lioness, leaena torva: a fierce face, vultus torvus, trux: a fierce look, oculi truces: to cast around menacing and fierce looks at, etc., circumferre truces minaciter oculos ad, etc.