Felix
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Felix
- A male given name from Latin.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:
- And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
- 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, →ISBN, page 134:
- Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.
- A generic name given to a cat.
- A place name:
- A municipality in Almería province, Andalusia, Spain.
- A community and railway point in Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, United States.
- A township in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, named after Felix Grundy.
- A township in Grundy County, Iowa, United States, also named after Felix Grundy.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]male given name
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Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish Félix, from Latin Fēlīx.
Proper noun
[edit]Felix
- a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin]
Czech
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Felix m anim
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
Declension
[edit]Danish
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[edit]Felix
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
Finnish
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Felix
- a male given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Felix (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Felix | Felixit | |
genitive | Felixin | Felixien | |
partitive | Felixiä | Felixejä | |
illative | Felixiin | Felixeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Felix | Felixit | |
accusative | nom. | Felix | Felixit |
gen. | Felixin | ||
genitive | Felixin | Felixien | |
partitive | Felixiä | Felixejä | |
inessive | Felixissä | Felixeissä | |
elative | Felixistä | Felixeistä | |
illative | Felixiin | Felixeihin | |
adessive | Felixillä | Felixeillä | |
ablative | Felixiltä | Felixeiltä | |
allative | Felixille | Felixeille | |
essive | Felixinä | Felixeinä | |
translative | Felixiksi | Felixeiksi | |
abessive | Felixittä | Felixeittä | |
instructive | — | Felixein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Felix is the 296th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,429 male individuals (and as a middle name to 855 more), and also belongs to 9 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
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[edit]Felix
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
Icelandic
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Felix m (proper noun, genitive singular Felix)
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
Declension
[edit]Declension of Felix (sg-only masculine)
indefinite singular | |
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nominative | Felix |
accusative | Felix |
dative | Felix |
genitive | Felix |
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fēlīx (“lucky, happy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.liːks/, [ˈfeːlʲiːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.liks/, [ˈfɛːliks]
Proper noun
[edit]Fēlīx m sg (genitive Fēlīcis); third declension
- A cognomen, particularly of later Roman emperors.
- A masculine given name, particularly of alleged early Christian saints.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun, singular only.
singular | |
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nominative | Fēlīx |
genitive | Fēlīcis |
dative | Fēlīcī |
accusative | Fēlīcem |
ablative | Fēlīce |
vocative | Fēlīx |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “Felix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Felix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian
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[edit]Felix
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
Swedish
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[edit]Felix c (genitive Felix)
- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁(y)-
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːlɪks
- Rhymes:English/iːlɪks/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Latin
- English terms with quotations
- en:Municipalities of Spain
- en:Places in Andalusia
- en:Places in Spain
- en:Villages in Ontario
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Ontario
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Unincorporated communities in California, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in California, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Townships
- en:Places in Illinois, USA
- en:Places in Iowa, USA
- Cebuano terms derived from Spanish
- Cebuano terms derived from Latin
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- Cebuano terms spelled with X
- Cebuano terms spelled with F
- Cebuano given names
- Cebuano male given names
- Cebuano male given names from Spanish
- Cebuano male given names from Latin
- Czech terms derived from Latin
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Czech/ɪks
- Rhymes:Czech/ɪks/2 syllables
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech terms spelled with X
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech animate nouns
- Czech given names
- Czech male given names
- Czech male given names from Latin
- Czech masculine animate nouns
- Czech hard masculine animate nouns
- Danish terms derived from Latin
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- Danish terms spelled with X
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- Finnish terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/eliks
- Rhymes:Finnish/eliks/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with X
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish risti-type nominals
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- Norwegian terms derived from Latin
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