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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
fēlis f
- genitive singular of fēlēs
Noun
fēlis f (genitive fēlis); third declension
- Alternative form of fēlēs
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- “felis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- felis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- felis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “felis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old High German
Etymology
Akin to Old Norse fell, fjall.
Pronunciation
Noun
felis m
- cliff
- rock
Descendants