Felicitas

German

Alternative forms

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

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.