Citations:ailurology

English citations of ailurology

• 1996, Sarah Hartwell, Cats and Cat Care:

  Anyone who knows cats will acknowledge that the one best thing ever written about them, the concentrated quintessence of so much ailurology as we know, is Kipling’s "The Cat Walked by Himself."

• 2023, Jonathan Losos, The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, page 12:

  The English language is sorely lacking a word for the study of cats. Some online sources call it felinology, but if you’re going to make up a word, you might as well get it right (“felinology” mixes Greek and Latin). “Ailurophile” and “ailurophobia” are accepted dictionary words, meaning the “love” and “fear” of cats, respectively, and are derived from the ancient Greek αἴλουρος [aílouros] for “cat” (literally, it means “with waving tail”). It follows, then, that the study of cats should be termed “ailurology.”