felicitas Latin · revision 18013

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [feːˈliː.kɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [feˈliː.t͡ʃi.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fēlīcitās''' ''f'' (genitive fēlīcitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|fēlīx|-tās|t1=fruitful; fortunate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fēlīx]] to [[itc-pro|*fēl(w)ī-|t=suckling]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-l(u)-i-]], from the root [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to suck, nurse]]; its sense developed from “suckling, with young” to “fruitful” and “fortunate”.^(de Vaan 2008) The same root is in [[m|la|fēmina|t=woman]] and [[m|la|fīlius|t=son]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Terence.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler first records it in Columella.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Fēlīcitās'' is “good fortune, luck” (Cicero of Sulla's ''cōnsilium, imperium et fēlīcitās''), personified as a goddess, and of a person who is a city's good fortune.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is success, prosperity, and in philosophy true happiness, blessedness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) From the first century AD it is also a happy gift (a fine memory), the fertility of land, and the aptness of a writer's style, as in Petronius' ''Horātiī cūriōsa fēlīcitās'', “the studied felicity of Horace”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “felicity”,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin uses it for the bliss of heaven.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|felicity]] comes from it through Old French in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Sulla's good fortune.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius: ''Horātiī cūriōsa fēlīcitās''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|felicity]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Good [[m|en|fortune]], luck.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Success, [[m|en|prosperity]]; happiness, [[m|en|blessedness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A happy gift or endowment.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|fertility]] (of land).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Felicity, aptness (of style).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The bliss of heaven.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Proper noun===

+ # ''Fēlīcitās'', Good Fortune as a goddess.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fēlīcitō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fēlīciter]]

+ * [[fēlīx]]

+ * [[īnfēlīcitās]]

+ * [[en|felicity]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}