felix

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

1. happy, lucky, blessed, fortunate

   Synonyms: laetus, alacer

   Antonyms: maestus, infēlīx, trīstis, miser, aeger

2. fertile, fruitful, prosperous
3. auspicious, favorable, of good omen or luck
4. (religion, archaic) of the noble fruits offered to the deities

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

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

Derived terms

• Arabia Fēlīx
• fēlīcitās
• fēlīciter
• fēlīcitō
• Fēlīx

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

1. Alternative form of filix