felis

See also: Felis, Félis, and felís

Ladino

Alternative forms

• felís, feliz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish feliz, felix (“lucky”). Doublet of feliche.

Adjective

felis (Hebrew spelling פ׳יליס)

1. happy (merry)

   Synonyms: afortunado, alegre, feliche, kontente

   Antonym: triste

   • 2008, Matilda Gini Barnatán, Viviana Rajel Barnatán, Darío Meta Barnatán, La ija i la madre komo la unya i la karne‎^[1], Ibersaf Editores, →ISBN, page 69:

     Agora soltanto
     So reflekto de Tu Brilyo
     Yo no me demando
     Sospiro
     Mirando en lo Alto
     So felis
     Dunke bivo…

     Now letting go, I am [an] image of your radiance, I wonder not; I sigh, looking above, I am happy, therefore I live…

2. lucky (fortunate)

   Synonyms: afortunado, mazalozo, mazaludo

   Antonym: desfortunado

Related terms

• felisidad
• felisitar
• felisitasiones
• felisitasión

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfeː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɛː.lis]

Noun

fēlis f

1. genitive singular of fēlēs

Noun

fēlis f (genitive fēlis); third declension

1. Alternative form of fēlēs

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	fēlis	fēlēs
genitive	fēlis	fēlium
dative	fēlī	fēlibus
accusative	fēlem	fēlēs fēlīs
ablative	fēle	fēlibus
vocative	fēlis	fēlēs

References

• “felis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "felis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• felis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “felis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old High German

Etymology

Akin to Old Norse fell, fjall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfe.lis̠/

Noun

felis m

1. cliff
2. rock

Descendants

• German: Fels