Felicitas

See also: felicitas, felicitás, and félicitas

German

Alternative forms

• Felizitas

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Fēlīcitās.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Felicitas

1. a female given name

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈliː.kɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈliː.t͡ʃi.tas]

Proper noun

Fēlīcitās f sg (genitive Fēlīcitātis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Fēlīcitās
genitive	Fēlīcitātis
dative	Fēlīcitātī
accusative	Fēlīcitātem
ablative	Fēlīcitāte
vocative	Fēlīcitās

References

• “Felicitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Felicitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.