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Latin
Etymology
From fēlēs (“cat”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fēlīnus (feminine fēlīna, neuter fēlīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- feline; of or pertaining to a cat
1570, Anthony van Cuyck, Grammatica gallica, page 16:Iau, miauler, est vocem felinam edere.- (The triphthong) iau, (as in) miauler, is to emit a cat's cry.
- 1652, Christoph Scheiner, Oculus, Liber I, Pars I, Cap. IV:
Nam fundus Choroidis taurinae caeruleus, felinae flavus existit, &c.- For the bottom of the taurine Choroid appears blue, the feline, yellow, and so on.
1750, Jan Frederik Gronovius, Index supellectilis lapidea, page 10:Lapis felinus, qui ferro attritus urinam felium redolet.- The cat-stone, which, rubbed with iron, smells like the urine of cats.
1811, Peter Simon Pallas, Zoographia rosso-asiatica, volume I, page 14:In felino genere animalitas ad summum gradum evecta et animales spiritus maxime exaltati videntur.- Within the feline kind are seen animality raised to the highest level and animals particularly elevated of the spirit.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “felinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- felinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.