Feliform
/ˈfiː.lɪ.fɔːrm/noun
Resembling or belonging to the cat family; cat-like.
Did you know?Feliform comes from Latin felis, meaning “cat,” plus -formis, “shaped like,” and the same fel- root also gave us feline, so even modern science is still speaking in an old cat-language.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
felis
“cat”
Latin
Latin
-formis
“having the form of, shaped like”
18th–19th Century
New Latin
feliformis
“cat-shaped; cat-like”
Modern English
English
feliform
“resembling or belonging to the cat family”