Where does “ネコ亜目” come from?

ネコ亜目 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 亜目, from Japanese 目, from Middle Chinese 目.

ネコ亜目 (Japanese): Feliformia

Definitions

  1. Feliformia

Ancestry of “ネコ亜目”, step by step

ネコ亜目 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 亜目

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese亜目a suborder
2Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
3Middle Chinese目—

via Japanese 猫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese猫a cat
2Old Japaneseねこ—
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