feliz
See also: Feliz
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem.
AdjectiveEdit
feliz (epicene, plural felices)
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GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese feliz, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”).
AdjectiveEdit
feliz m or f (plural felices)
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Further readingEdit
- “feliz” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- felice (obsolete, poetic)
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese feliz, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”). The Old Portuguese form fiiz, however, was popularly inherited, but later replaced by feliz, in a process of restoration[1].
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
feliz (plural felizes, comparable)
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Further readingEdit
- “feliz” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem.[1] Compare Catalan feliç.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /feˈliθ/, [feˈliθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /feˈlis/, [feˈlis]
- Hyphenation: fe‧liz
AdjectiveEdit
feliz (plural felices)
- happy, merry (trait)
- pleased, glad
- Synonym: contento
- joyous, merry, happy
- una ocasión feliz ― a joyous occasion
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Further readingEdit
- “feliz” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN