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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 alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/February.

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