felio

Latin

Etymology

Probably fēlēs +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.li.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.li.o]

Verb

fēliō (present infinitive fēlīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

1. to snarl like a panther
   • 43 BCE—18, Ovid (attributed), Carmen de Philomela, 50:

     Tigrides indomitae raccant, rugiuntque leones; Panther caurit amans; pardus hiando felit.

     Untamed tigers make a hoarse sound, and lions roar; the rutting female panther caterwauls; the male panther, for uttering, snarls.

2. to meow like a cat
   • 2007, John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, page 287:

     feles feliunt

     cats meow

Conjugation

   Conjugation of fēliō (fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	fēliō		fēlīs		fēlit		fēlīmus		fēlītis		fēliunt
	imperfect	fēliēbam		fēliēbās		fēliēbat		fēliēbāmus		fēliēbātis		fēliēbant
	future	fēliam		fēliēs		fēliet		fēliēmus		fēliētis		fēlient
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	fēliam		fēliās		fēliat		fēliāmus		fēliātis		fēliant
	imperfect	fēlīrem		fēlīrēs		fēlīret		fēlīrēmus		fēlīrētis		fēlīrent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		fēlī		—		—		fēlīte		—
	future	—		fēlītō		fēlītō		—		fēlītōte		fēliuntō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		fēlīre			—			fēliēns			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		fēliendī		fēliendō		fēliendum		fēliendō		—		—

Related terms

• fēlēs

Descendants

• → French: félir

References

• “felio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• felio in John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “felis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 446