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Felicitas

Felicitas

See also: felicitas, felicitás, and félicitas

German

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Felicitas

  1. A female given name.

Latin

Etymology

From fēlīcitās (happiness), from fēlīx (happy) + -itās.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /feːˈliː.ki.taːs/

Proper noun

Fēlīcitās f (genitive Fēlīcitātis); third declension

  1. (Roman mythology) A goddess of luck.
  2. A female given name, borne by early Christian martyrs.

References

felicitas

felicitas

See also: Felicitas, felicitás, and félicitas

Galician

Verb

felicitas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of felicitar

Latin

Etymology

From fēlīx (happy, fortunate) + -itās.

Pronunciation

Noun

fēlīcitās f (genitive fēlīcitātis); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative fēlīcitās fēlīcitātēs
genitive fēlīcitātis fēlīcitātum
dative fēlīcitātī fēlīcitātibus
accusative fēlīcitātem fēlīcitātēs
ablative fēlīcitāte fēlīcitātibus
vocative fēlīcitās fēlīcitātēs

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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
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “felicitas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Spanish

Verb

felicitas

  1. Informal second-person singular () present indicative form of felicitar.