different between ferine vs feline

English

Etymology

From Latin fer?nus, from fera (“wild animal”). The zoological sense was coined by William Whewell in 1840.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???a?n/

Adjective

ferine (comparative more ferine, superlative most ferine)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 162:

     the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind) […]

2. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Translations

Noun

ferine (plural ferines)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A member of the proposed taxon of bats, carnivorans, and insectivorans.

Anagrams

• Feiner, enfire, fineer, refine

Italian

Adjective

ferine

1. feminine plural of ferino

Latin

Etymology 1

From fer?nus +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri?.ne?/, [f???i?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri.ne/, [f???i?n?]

Adverb

fer?n? (comparative fer?nius, superlative fer?nissim?)

1. brutishly

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri?.ne/, [f???i?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fe?ri.ne/, [f???i?n?]

Adjective

fer?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of fer?nus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?la?n/
• Rhymes: -i?la?n

Etymology 1

From Latin f?l?nus, from f?l?s (“wildcat, marten”).

Adjective

feline (comparative more feline, superlative most feline)

1. Of or pertaining to cats.
2. catlike (resembling a cat)

Synonyms

• catly

Translations

Etymology 2

Substantive use of the adjective feline, from Latin f?l?nus

Noun

feline (plural felines)

1. (formal) A cat; member of the cat family Felidae.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:feline

Translations

Related terms

• feliform
• felis
• Felix
• felinity
• felinely

See also

• canine
• cattus
• Felidae

Anagrams

• feelin', nelfie

Italian

Adjective

feline

1. feminine plural of felino

Anagrams

• fenile

Latin

Adjective

f?l?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of f?l?nus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fe?line]

Noun

feline f

1. indefinite plural of felin?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of felin?