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A fact from Alférez appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the alférezPonce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
The connexion with arms and armour is visible in several Latin synonyms, all of which contain the root fer-, signifying iron: fertorarius, inferartis, and offertor. The office was sometimes the same as that of the standard-bearer or signifer.
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In offertor and signifer the root fer is certainly not 'iron' (it's cognate to English bear, the verb), and I'm skeptical about the others, though none are in my Latin dictionary. —Tamfang (talk) 22:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'll go further: if the r is not doubled (in Latin), I assume that the morpheme is not related to 'iron'. My dictionary has a bunch of other unrelated fer– words. —Tamfang (talk) 05:07, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
