felicitas

See also: Felicitas, felicitás, and félicitas

Galician

Verb

felicitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of felicitar

Latin

Alternative forms

• foelīcitās (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From fēlīx (“happy; blessed, fortunate, lucky; fertile, fruitful; prosperous; auspicious, favourable”) +‎ -tās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːˈliː.ki.taːs/, [feːˈlʲiːkɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈli.t͡ʃi.tas/, [feˈliːt͡ʃit̪äs]

Noun

fēlīcitās f (genitive fēlīcitātis); third declension

1. fruitfulness, fertility
2. happiness, felicity
3. success, good fortune

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fēlīcitās	fēlīcitātēs
genitive	fēlīcitātis	fēlīcitātum
dative	fēlīcitātī	fēlīcitātibus
accusative	fēlīcitātem	fēlīcitātēs
ablative	fēlīcitāte	fēlīcitātibus
vocative	fēlīcitās	fēlīcitātēs

Derived terms

• Fēlīcitās

Related terms

• fēlīciter
• fēlīcitō
• fēlīx

Descendants

• Catalan: felicitat
• English: felicity
• French: félicité
• Galician: felicidade
• Italian: felicità
• Occitan: felicitat
• Portuguese: felicidade
• Spanish: felicidad

References

• “felicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “felicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• felicitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatis cumulum affert
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatem magno cumulo auget
    
• “felicitas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “felicitas”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “felicitas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Verb

felicitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of felicitar

Spanish

Verb

felicitas

1. second-person singular present indicative of felicitar