feri.
to guard from, fend
Meaning & usage
to guard from, fend
to duck, dodge, avoid
to recoil, shirk
to be on one's guard, be wary
to observe, keep
to respect or keep (a holiday), celebrate
Where this word comes from
Probably from Latin ferīre (“strike”), of Proto-Indo-European origin, with a related but shifted semantic development in Romanian (with the meaning seeming to derive from the reaction to being struck or attacked). Other less likely explanations include a Vulgar Latin *auferīre, from an alteration of auferre (as with suferi < suffere). Compare Aromanian afirescu, afiriri. Some have tried to connect it, at least in the archaic or regional sense of "to celebrate a holiday", with a Vulgar Latin *fērīre, from fēriae.
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