Felidae (novel) Felidae (novel) Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany. , there are eight books in the "Felidae" series: "Felidae", "Felidae II" (also known as "Felidae on the Road" or, in the original German version, "Francis"), "Cave Canem", "Das Duell", "Salve Roma!", "Schandtat", "Felipolis" and "Göttergleich", of which only "Felidae", "Felidae II", and "Felidae V: Salve Roma!" have been translated into English. Although being primarily a work of crime fiction, the "Felidae" series discuss
International scientific vocabulary root before another root or prefix that starts with a vowel, e.g. gastroenteritis; but elision happens in gastrectomy (not gastroectomy). The Greek word τέρας (τέρατο-) = "monster" is usually used to mean "monster (abnormal)" (e.g. teratology, teratogen), but some biological names use it to mean "monster (enormous)" (e.g. the extinct animals "Teratornis" (a condor with a 12-foot wingspan) and "Terataspis" (a trilobite 2 feet long)). International scientific vocabulary International scientific vocabulary (ISV) comprises scientific and specialized words whose language of origin may or may not be certain, but which are in current use in several modern languages (that is, translingually).