ferreus

== Latin == === Etymology === ferrum (“iron”) +‎ -eus (adjective-forming suffix) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛr.re.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛr.re.us] === Adjective === ferreus (feminine ferrea, neuter ferreum); first/second-declension adjective iron, made of iron like or pertaining to iron hard, cruel firm, immovable, rigid ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (made of iron): chalybēïus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ferreus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ferreus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ferreus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.