felicitas
Galician
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From fēlīx (“happy; blessed, fortunate, lucky; fertile, fruitful; prosperous; auspicious, favourable”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”)) + -itās (variant of -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /feːˈliː.ki.taːs/, [feːˈlʲiːkɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈli.t͡ʃi.tas/, [feˈliːt͡ʃit̪äs]
Noun
fēlīcitās f (genitive fēlīcitātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fēlīcitās | fēlīcitātēs |
Genitive | fēlīcitātis | fēlīcitātum |
Dative | fēlīcitātī | fēlīcitātibus |
Accusative | fēlīcitātem | fēlīcitātēs |
Ablative | fēlīcitāte | fēlīcitātibus |
Vocative | fēlīcitās | fēlīcitātēs |
Derived terms
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, 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
- his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
- “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
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