- efferitas
- effĕrĭtas ( ecf- ), ātis, f. [efferus], an excessively wild state, wildness, degeneracy (opp. mansuetudo), Cic. Sest. 42, 91:
quas (terras) peragrans undique omnem ecferitatem expuli,
id. Tusc. Poet. 2, 8, 20 fin. (al. feritatem); Lact. Mort. Pers. 9, 2.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.