name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Felicia
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Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /fəˈliʃə/
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US: /fəˈlɪʃə/
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US: /fəˈlɪʃi.ə/
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US: /fəˈlɪsi.ə/
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rhymes with -iːʃə
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CMU ARPABET: F AH0 L IY1 SH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of the genus Felicia of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
genus of tropical African herbs or subshrubs with usually blue flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Felicia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: asterid dicot genus
History
Etymology
From Middle English Felicia, from Latin Fēlīcia, from fēlīcia (literally “happy things”), the neuter plural of fēlīx, which often occurred in the phrase tempora fēlīcia (“happy times”).
From the genus name.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: Félicie — female given name
- Galician: Felisa — female given name
- Galician: Felicia — female given name
- German: Felizia — female given name
- Italian: Felicia — female given name
- Polish: Felicja — female given name
- Romanian: Felicia — female given name
- Spanish: Felisa — female given name
- Swedish: Felicia — female given name
- Ukrainian: Фелікса (Feliksa) — female given name
Real reading context