felix

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.liːks/

fēlīx (genitive fēlīcis, comparative fēlīcior, superlative fēlīcissimus); third declension

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

Third declension.

• Arabia Fēlīx
• fēlīcitās
• fēlīciter
• fēlīcitō

• Fēlix

• 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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray