Felix

From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːlɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːlɪks

Felix

1. A male given name from Latin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:

     And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

   • 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, →ISBN, page 134:

     Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

   • 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.

2. A generic name given to a cat.
3. A place name:
   1. A municipality in Almería province, Andalusia, Spain.
   2. A community and railway point in Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada.
   3. An unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, United States.
   4. A township in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, named after Felix Grundy.
   5. A township in Grundy County, Iowa, United States, also named after Felix Grundy.

• female given names: Felicia, Felicity

• exfil, flexi, flexi-

From Spanish Félix, from Latin Fēlīx.

Felix

1. a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin]

Derived from Latin Fēlīx.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛlɪks]
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Hyphenation: Fe‧lix

Felix m anim

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

From Latin Fēlīx.

Felix

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

From Latin Fēlīx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe(ː)liks/, [ˈfe̞(ː)liks̠]
• Rhymes: -eliks

Felix

1. a male given name

• Felix is the 296^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,429 male individuals (and as a middle name to 855 more), and also belongs to 9 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Latin Fēlīx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeːlɪks/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Fe‧lix

Felix

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

Borrowed from Latin Fēlīx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːlɪks/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛːlɪxs/

Felix m (proper noun, genitive singular Felix)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

• Foelīx (Medieval Latin)

From fēlīx (“lucky, happy”).

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

Fēlīx m sg (genitive Fēlīcis); third declension

1. A cognomen, particularly of later Roman emperors.
2. A masculine given name, particularly of alleged early Christian saints.

Third-declension noun, singular only.

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

From Latin Fēlīx.

Felix

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

From Latin Fēlīx.

Felix c (genitive Felix)

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Felix

• Felicia

Borrowed from Spanish Félix, from Latin Fēlix.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈfeliks/ [ˈfɛː.lɪks]
    • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈpeliks/ [ˈpɛː.lɪks]
    • Rhymes: -eliks
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpelis/ [ˈpɛː.lɪs] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: Fe‧lix

Felix (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜃ᜔ᜐ᜔)

1. a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Felix