felix

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See also: FELIX, Felix, Félix, and Fêlix

Latin

Alternative forms

foelīx (Medieval Latin)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *fēlwiks, from earlier *θēlwiks, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i-k-s, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.liːks/, [ˈfeːlʲiːks̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.liks/, [ˈfɛːliks]

Adjective

fēlīx (genitive fēlīcis, comparative fēlīcior, superlative fēlīcissimus, adverb fēlīciter); third-declension one-termination adjective

happy, lucky, blessed, fortunate
Synonyms: laetus, alacer

Antonyms: maestus, infēlīx, trīstis, miser, aeger
fertile, fruitful, prosperous
auspicious, favorable, of good omen or luck
(religion, archaic) of the noble fruits offered to the deities

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	fēlīx		fēlīcēs	fēlīcia
genitive	fēlīcis		fēlīcium
dative	fēlīcī		fēlīcibus
accusative	fēlīcem	fēlīx	fēlīcēs	fēlīcia
ablative	fēlīcī		fēlīcibus
vocative	fēlīx		fēlīcēs	fēlīcia

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Galician-Portuguese: fiiz
Romanian: ferice
→ Asturian: feliz
→ Catalan: feliç
→ Friulian: feliç
→ Italian: felice, filice (obsolete)
- → Esperanto: feliĉa
- → Sardinian: felitze
→ Mirandese: feliç
→ Portuguese: feliz
→ Galician: feliz
→ Sicilian: filici
→ Spanish: feliz
→ Venetan: felise

References

“felix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“felix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
felix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
felix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere
- may heaven's blessing rest on it: quod bonum, faustum, felix, fortunatumque sit! (Div. 1. 45. 102)
“felix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“felix”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Etymology 2

Noun

felix f (genitive felicis); third declension

Alternative form of filix