"féroce" meaning in All languages combined

See féroce on Wiktionary

Adjective [Français]

IPA: \fe.ʁɔs\, \fe.ʁɔs\, fe.ʁɔs Audio: Fr-féroce.ogg Forms: féroces [plural, masculine, feminine]
Rhymes: \ɔs\
  1. Qui est cruel par instinct, en parlant des bêtes.
    Sense id: fr-féroce-fr-adj-OLNnQsyW Categories (other): Exemples en français
  2. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-féroce-fr-adj-tJNYlMjO Categories (other): Métaphores en français
  3. Qui est porté à la cruauté, en parlant des hommes.
    Sense id: fr-féroce-fr-adj-eb~VQkZA Categories (other): Exemples en français
  4. Qualifie ces sentiments ou ces attitudes cruels. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-féroce-fr-adj-fKo7Khdf Categories (other): Exemples en français, Métaphores en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: buse féroce, déférociser, férocement, férociser, férocissime, férocité, harpie féroce, requin féroce, rhinoféroce, squalelet féroce Translations: wild (Allemand), heftig (Allemand), ferocious (Anglais), fierce (Anglais), cruel (Anglais), vicious (Anglais), ka jugu (Bambara), ka farin (Bambara), juguman (Bambara), ferv (Breton), feroz (Espagnol), kruelega (Espéranto), tsiv (Hmong blanc), feroca (Ido), zugaf (Kotava), owuarú (Massaï), gruwelijk (Néerlandais), woest (Néerlandais), feròç (Occitan), ferotge [masculine] (Occitan), fèr [masculine] (Occitan), cruel (Portugais), feroz (Portugais), silaf'ado (Solrésol), yırtıcı (Turc), acımasız (Turc), vahşi (Turc)

Inflected forms

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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "coëfer"
    },
    {
      "word": "forcée"
    }
  ],
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      "kind": "other",
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      "kind": "other",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en hmong blanc",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en ido",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en kotava",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en massaï",
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      "source": "w"
    },
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      "kind": "other",
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    },
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "buse féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "déférociser"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocement"
    },
    {
      "word": "férociser"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocissime"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocité"
    },
    {
      "word": "harpie féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "requin féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "rhinoféroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "squalelet féroce"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin ferox."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "féroces",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "masculine",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Adjectif",
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      ],
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              34,
              41
            ]
          ],
          "text": "On exposait les martyrs aux bêtes féroces."
        },
        {
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            [
              39,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Les lions, les tigres sont des animaux féroces."
        }
      ],
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        "Qui est cruel par instinct, en parlant des bêtes."
      ],
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "C’est une bête féroce : Se dit d’un homme brutal et cruel."
        }
      ],
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        "…"
      ],
      "id": "fr-féroce-fr-adj-tJNYlMjO",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "kind": "other",
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      ],
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              11,
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            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un despote féroce."
        },
        {
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            [
              13,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Une peuplade féroce."
        },
        {
          "text": "(Par extension)"
        },
        {
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            [
              5,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Cœur féroce."
        },
        {
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            [
              10,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Caractère féroce."
        },
        {
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            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Humeur féroce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui est porté à la cruauté, en parlant des hommes."
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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              156,
              162
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil; tome 1 : De New-York à Tahiti, 1929",
          "text": "Je ne pus réussir à attraper un seul requin […]. Et cependant, lorsque je tuais l'un d'entre eux avec ma carabine sprinfield, c'était aussitôt une bataille féroce autour du festin cannibale."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un regard féroce."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un air féroce."
        },
        {
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            [
              10,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Des mœurs féroces."
        },
        {
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            [
              9,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Une joie féroce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qualifie ces sentiments ou ces attitudes cruels."
      ],
      "id": "fr-féroce-fr-adj-fKo7Khdf",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "\\fe.ʁɔs\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\fe.ʁɔs\\",
      "rhymes": "\\ɔs\\"
    },
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      "raw_tags": [
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      ]
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    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "wild"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "heftig"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ferocious"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "fierce"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "cruel"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "vicious"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "ka jugu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "ka farin"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "juguman"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Breton",
      "lang_code": "br",
      "word": "ferv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "kruelega"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hmong blanc",
      "lang_code": "mww",
      "word": "tsiv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "word": "feroca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Kotava",
      "lang_code": "avk",
      "word": "zugaf"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Massaï",
      "lang_code": "mas",
      "word": "owuarú"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "gruwelijk"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "woest"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "word": "feròç"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ferotge"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fèr"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "cruel"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Solrésol",
      "lang_code": "solrésol",
      "word": "silaf'ado"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "yırtıcı"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "acımasız"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "vahşi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "féroce"
}
{
  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "coëfer"
    },
    {
      "word": "forcée"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Adjectifs en français",
    "Lemmes en français",
    "Mots en français issus d’un mot en latin",
    "Rimes en français en \\ɔs\\",
    "Traductions en allemand",
    "Traductions en anglais",
    "Traductions en bambara",
    "Traductions en breton",
    "Traductions en espagnol",
    "Traductions en espéranto",
    "Traductions en hmong blanc",
    "Traductions en ido",
    "Traductions en kotava",
    "Traductions en massaï",
    "Traductions en néerlandais",
    "Traductions en occitan",
    "Traductions en portugais",
    "Traductions en solrésol",
    "Traductions en turc",
    "français"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "buse féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "déférociser"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocement"
    },
    {
      "word": "férociser"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocissime"
    },
    {
      "word": "férocité"
    },
    {
      "word": "harpie féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "requin féroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "rhinoféroce"
    },
    {
      "word": "squalelet féroce"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin ferox."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "féroces",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "masculine",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Adjectif",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              34,
              41
            ]
          ],
          "text": "On exposait les martyrs aux bêtes féroces."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              39,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Les lions, les tigres sont des animaux féroces."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui est cruel par instinct, en parlant des bêtes."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Métaphores en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "C’est une bête féroce : Se dit d’un homme brutal et cruel."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "…"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              11,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un despote féroce."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Une peuplade féroce."
        },
        {
          "text": "(Par extension)"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Cœur féroce."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Caractère féroce."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Humeur féroce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui est porté à la cruauté, en parlant des hommes."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français",
        "Métaphores en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              156,
              162
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil; tome 1 : De New-York à Tahiti, 1929",
          "text": "Je ne pus réussir à attraper un seul requin […]. Et cependant, lorsque je tuais l'un d'entre eux avec ma carabine sprinfield, c'était aussitôt une bataille féroce autour du festin cannibale."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              16
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un regard féroce."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Un air féroce."
        },
        {
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            [
              10,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Des mœurs féroces."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              9,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Une joie féroce."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qualifie ces sentiments ou ces attitudes cruels."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\fe.ʁɔs\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\fe.ʁɔs\\",
      "rhymes": "\\ɔs\\"
    },
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      "ipa": "fe.ʁɔs",
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      "raw_tags": [
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  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "wild"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "heftig"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ferocious"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "fierce"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "cruel"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "vicious"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "ka jugu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "ka farin"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Bambara",
      "lang_code": "bm",
      "word": "juguman"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Breton",
      "lang_code": "br",
      "word": "ferv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "kruelega"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hmong blanc",
      "lang_code": "mww",
      "word": "tsiv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "word": "feroca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Kotava",
      "lang_code": "avk",
      "word": "zugaf"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Massaï",
      "lang_code": "mas",
      "word": "owuarú"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "gruwelijk"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "woest"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "word": "feròç"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ferotge"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fèr"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "cruel"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Solrésol",
      "lang_code": "solrésol",
      "word": "silaf'ado"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "yırtıcı"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "acımasız"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "vahşi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "féroce"
}

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