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