felicity

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fɪˈlɪsɪti/
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• General-American: /fəˈlɪsəti/
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• General-American: [-ɾi]
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• rhymes with -ɪsɪti
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• CMU ARPABET: F IH0 L IH1 S AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From the noun felicity, and also the English form of Latin Felicitas, a name borne by early martyrs.

From Middle English felicite (“bliss, happiness, joy; delight, pleasure; a source of happiness; good fortune; prosperity; well-being; of a planet: in an influential position”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French felicité (modern French félicité (“bliss, happiness; felicity”)), from Latin fēlīcitātem, the accusative singular of fēlīcitās (“fertility, fruitfulness; happiness, felicity; good fortune; success”), from fēlīx (“happy; blessed, fortunate, lucky; fertile, fruitful; prosperous; auspicious, favourable”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”)) + -itās (a variant of -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)).

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Esperanto: Feliĉita — female given name
• French: Félicité — female given name
• German: Felizitas — female given name
• German: Felicitas — female given name
• Greek: Φελίσιτι (Felísiti) — female given name
• Italian: Felicita — female given name
• Japanese: フェリシティー (Ferishitī) — female given name
• Latin: Felicitas — female given name
• Spanish: Felicidad — female given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 得體 /得体 (détǐ) — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Esperanto: feliĉego — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• French: félicité — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Greek: ευδαιμονία (evdaimonía) — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Italian: felicità — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Macedonian: у́месност (úmesnost) — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Macedonian: соо́дветност (soódvetnost) — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Portuguese: felicidade — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.
• Spanish: felicidad — apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.