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6-letter words (1 found)

FERRUM,

5-letter words (3 found)

FEMUR,FUMER,MURRE,

4-letter words (7 found)

FERM,FUME,FURR,MURE,MURR,RUER,RUME,

3-letter words (16 found)

EMU,ERF,ERM,ERR,FEM,FER,FEU,FUM,FUR,MEU,REF,REM,RUE,RUM,UME,URE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EF,EM,ER,FE,FU,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 38 words from ferrum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ferrum

ferrum

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ferrum.

Noun

ferrum (countable and uncountable, plural ferrums)

  1. (homeopathy) Any of various remedies made from iron-containing compounds.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From earlier *ferzom, from a substrate loanword from an unknown source. According to de Vaan, possibly from a Phoenician dialect, 𐤁𐤓𐤆𐤋 (brzl /⁠barzel⁠/, “iron”), akin to Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא, ܦܪܙܠܐ (parzəlā, “iron”), Akkadian 𒀭𒁇 (parzillum, “iron”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎗𐎏𐎍 (brḏl, “iron”), considered of Anatolian origin. The word could have entered Latin through Etruscan.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfer.rum/, [ˈfɛrːʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfer.rum/, [ˈfɛrːum]

Noun

ferrum n (genitive ferrī); second declension

  1. iron
  2. (metonymically) any tool made of iron
    Synonym: chalybs
  3. sword
    Urbi ferrō flammāque minitatus est.
    He threatened the city with fire and sword.
    Hyponyms: ēnsis, gladius
  4. fight, clash
    • c. 161, Dig. XXVIII.I.8.4 Gaius libro septimo decimo ad edictum provinciale
    Synonyms: pugna, gladius

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

  • ferrūgō

Related terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: her, heru, hjeru
    • Istro-Romanian: fľer
    • Megleno-Romanian: ieru
    • Romanian: fier, fer
  • Dalmatian:
    • fiar
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: ferru, farru
    • Italian: ferro
      • →? Sabir: ferro
    • Neapolitan: fierro
      Tarantino: fierro
    • Sicilian: ferru
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: fèr
      • Ligurian: færo
      • Lombard: fèr
      • Piedmontese: fer
      • Romagnol: fër
    • Friulian: fiêr
    • Istriot: fièro
    • Ladin: fer
    • Romansch: fier
    • Venetian: fero
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: fèr, fèrro, fa, far, farou, fè, fê
    • Old French: fer
      • Middle French: fer
        • French: fer (see there for further descendants)
      • Norman: fé (France, Jersey), faer (Guernsey), fer (Sark)
      • Walloon: fier
  • Occitano-Romance:
    • Gascon: hèr
    • Occitan: fèrre, ferri, fèr
    • Old Catalan: ferr, ferre, ferro
      • Catalan: ferro
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Navarro-Aragonese: fierro
      • Aragonese: fierro
        Ribagorçan: ferri
    • Old Leonese: fierru
      • Asturian: fierro, fierru, ḥierru, ḥierro, fiirru
      • Extremaduran: hierru
      • Leonese: fierru
      • Mirandese: fierro
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: ferro
      • Fala: ferru
      • Galician: ferro
      • Portuguese: ferro (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: fierro
      • Ladino: fierro
      • Spanish: fierro, hierro
        • Papiamentu: heru
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: ferru (most dialects), erru (most Nuorese varieties)
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: ferrum
    • → Malay: ferum
    • → Translingual: Fe

References

  • “ferrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ferrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ferrum 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)
  • ferrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “ferrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ferrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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