Ferocity
[fuh-ros-i-tee] /fəˈrɒs ɪ ti/
noun
1.
a quality or state; savage fierceness.
n.
c.1600, from French férocité, from Latin ferocitatem (nominative ferocitas) “fierceness,” from ferocis, oblique case of ferox “wild, bold, courageous, warlike, fierce,” literally “wild-looking,” a derivative of ferus “wild” (see fierce) + -ox, -ocem (genitive -ocis), a suffix meaning “looking or appearing” (cognate with Greek ops “eye, sight”).
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