felicitate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin felicitatus, past participle of fēlīcitō (“to felicitate”), from fēlīx (“happy”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To congratulate.
   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 25, [1]

     […] he waddled to the platform, bowed as low as his belly would permit, and was duly decorated and felicitated […]

Related terms

• felicitation
• felicity

Translations

congratulate — see congratulate

Adjective

felicitate (comparative more felicitate, superlative most felicitate)

1. (archaic) Made very happy.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I am alone felicitate / In your dear highness' love.

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Italian

Verb

felicitate

1. inflection of felicitare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of felicitato

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) fēlīcitāte

1. ablative singular of fēlīcitās