I.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.
effĕrĭtas (ecf- ), ātis, f. efferus,