-fer

From Latin -fer (“bearer”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɝ/

-fer

1. Holder or bearer of something.

• -ferous
• -iferous

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fər]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fer]

-fer (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -fera, masculine plural -fers, feminine plural -feres)

1. -ferous; which contains, bearing

   una pedra plumbífera

   a lead-bearing rock

• feraç
• feracitat

• “-fer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “-fer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “-fer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Proto-Italic *-foros, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰorós (“carrying”). Related to ferō (“to bear, to carry”). Compare -ger from gerō. Akin to Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros) and Sanskrit भार (bhārá).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fer]

-fer (feminine -fera, neuter -ferum); first/second-declension suffix (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. -bearing, -carrying, -bringing

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).