ferocious: [17] Etymologically, ferocious means ‘wild-eyed’. It comes from Latin ferox, which was originally a compound formed from ferus ‘fierce, wild’ (source of English feral [17]) and an element -oc-, -ox meaning ‘looking, appearing’. This also appears in atrocious and ocular, and goes back to an Indo-European source which also produced Greek ōps ‘eye’ and English eye. => atrocious, eye, feral, ocular
ferocious (adj.)
1640s, from Latin ferocis, oblique case of ferox "fierce, wild-looking" (see ferocity). Alternative ferocient (1650s) is seldom seen. Related: Ferociously; ferociousness.
雙語例句
1. A ferocious battle to select a new parliamentary candidate is in progress.
推選一位新的議會候選人的激戰正酣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Lindbergh was startled at the ferocious depth of anti-British feeling.
反英情緒之深之烈令林德伯格大為震驚。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Once again there's been ferocious blood-letting in the township.