Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 684.fēlīx on page 684
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fēlīx lucky
fēlīx is a Latin Adjective that primarily means lucky.
Definitions for fēlīx
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
lucky, fortunate, happy
English derivatives:
felicitate felicitation felicitous infelicitous felicity infelicity Felix
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Fruitful, productive: (a) (of plants, trees). (b) (of land, soil). (c) (of times, seasons; also of a fertility god). (d) (transf.) rich, fertile.
- 2
Bringing good luck, lucky, auspicious. (b) (of deities) propitious, favourable.
- 3
Enjoying good fortune, blessed, fortunate. (b) (of the dead or the underworld) blessed, happy. (c) ita sim ~ix, (in asseverations) 'so help me God'. (d) (as a cognomen). (e) (as the name of a part of Arabia, cf. sense Ib).
- 4
(a) (of the gifts of fortune) Constituting a blessing, happy, fortunate, good. (b) (of times, events, etc.) happy, untroubled.
- 5
Fortunate in respect of a particular activity, etc., successful. (b) (of actions, policies, etc.) having a happy issue, successful. (c) (of times or seasons) successful prosperous.
Sentences with fēlīx
Latin to English
Sī ratiō dūxisset, fēlīx fuissēs.Compare If reason had lead, you would have been happy.
Quis est vir fēlīcissimus? Is quī vītam sapientissimam agit fēlīcior est quam tyrannnus potentissimus.Compare Who is the happiest man? He who leads the wisest life is happier than the most powerful tyrant.
Felix, qui propriis aevum transegit in arvis, ipsa domus puerum quem videt, ipsa senem; qui baculo nitens in qua reptavit harena unius numerat saecula longa casae.Compare Happy the man who his whole time doth bound within the enclosure of his little ground. Happy the man whom the same humble place, the hereditary cottage of his race, from his first rising infancy has known. (Tr. Abraham Cowley)
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, atque omnis et inexorabile fatum subiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari.Compare Lucky is he who can learn the roots of the universe, has mastered all his fears and fate's intransigence and the hungry clamor of hell.
Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis.Compare You were indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendor of your life, but also in the opportune moment of your death.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 143.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 684.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "fēlīx, fēlīcis (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 25, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/felix-felicis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 143.fēlīx, fēlīcis on page 143
