feles

== Latin == === Alternative forms === faelēs, fēlis === Etymology === Unknown; maybe cognate with Welsh bele (“marten”). Other sources say that it is related to Latin fulica, fulix, with the etymological meaning of "animal with a shiny coat", but this theory is doubtful. The connection with Latin fēlix (“happy”) and Latin fēllō (“to suck”), with the (hypothetical) etymological meaning of “animal that sucks the blood [of its prey]”, was also proposed. This word could be cognate with Latin mēlēs (“badger”), under the assumption of a very unusual alternation of /f/ (or earlier */β/) and /m/, which might be an indication of substrate origin. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfeː.ɫeːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.les] === Noun === fēlēs f (genitive fēlis); third declension cat Synonyms: cattus, mūriceps, mūrilegus, pilax 1556, Conrad Gessner, Aeliani de natura animalium, Liber VI, Cap. XXVII, p. 336: ==== Usage notes ==== Fēlis is the genitive singular form of fēlēs, but it is also an alternate nominative and vocative form of fēlēs. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== fēlīneus fēlīnus fēliō === References === === Further reading === “feles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “feles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “feles”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Maltese == === Etymology === Apparently from Arabic فَلْس (fals, “fish scale”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.lɛs/ Rhymes: -ɛlɛs === Noun === feles m (plural ifilsa or filsa) wedge (archaic) a splinter or any small piece == Spanish == === Verb === feles second-person singular present subjunctive of felar