Arabia Felix

• Arabia fēlīx
• Arabia Foelīx (Medieval Latin)

Calque of Ancient Greek Ἀραβία Εὐδαίμων (Arabía Eudaímōn, literally “the well-off Arabia”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈra.bi.a ˈfeː.liːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈraː.bi.a ˈfɛː.liks]

Arabia Fēlīx f sg (genitive Arabiae Fēlīcis); first declension

1. The Arabian Peninsula, especially South Arabia
2. (post-Classical) Yemen (region)

First-declension noun with a third-declension adjective, singular only.

• Arabia Dēserta
• Arabia Petraea

• German: glückliches Arabien, Glückliches Arabien

• “Arabia Felix”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Retsö, Jan (2000) “Where and what was Arabia Felix?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 30, →JSTOR, pages 189–92