prosperity

English

Etymology

From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās, equivalent to prosper +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɒˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: pros‧per‧i‧ty

Noun

prosperity (countable and uncountable, plural prosperities)

1. The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.

   Synonyms: prosperousness; see also Thesaurus:wealth

   Near-synonym: thriving

   • 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     “Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.

Derived terms

• coprosperity
• improsperity
• overprosperity
• prosperity doctrine
• prosperity gospel
• prosperity theology
• unprosperity

Related terms

• prosper
• prosperous

Translations

condition of being prosperous

• Bulgarian: преуспяване (bg) n (preuspjavane), благоденствие (bg) n (blagodenstvie)
• Burmese: မင်္ဂလာ (my) (mangga.la)
• Catalan: prosperitat (ca) f
• Cebuano: kalamboan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繁榮 / 繁荣 (zh) (fánróng)

• Czech: prosperita f
• Dutch: voorspoed (nl)
• Esperanto: prospero
• Estonian: jõukus
• Finnish: vauraus (fi)
• French: prospérité (fr) f
• Galician: prosperidade (gl) f
• German: Prosperität (de) f, Wohlstand (de) m
• Greek: ευημερία (el) f (evimería), ευπορία (el) f (efporía)

  Ancient Greek: εὐθηνία f (euthēnía), ὄλβος m (ólbos)

• Hindi: समृद्धि (hi) (samŕddhi), संपन्नता (hi) f (sampannatā)
• Icelandic: velmegun f, góðæri (is) n
• Irish: rath m
• Italian: prosperità (it) f
• Japanese: 繁栄 (ja) (はんえい, han'ei)
• Kazakh: өркендеу (örkendeu), гүлдену (güldenu), көркею (körkeü)
• Korean: 번영(繁榮) (ko) (beonyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاسوودەیی (asûdeyî), بەختیاری (ckb) (bextyarî), کامەرانی (kameranî)

• Latin: prosperitās f
• Macedonian: благосо́стојба f (blagosóstojba), процвету́вање n (procvetúvanje), има́штија f (imáštija)
• Malayalam: സമൃദ്ധി (ml) (samr̥ddhi), അഭിവൃദ്ധി (ml) (abhivr̥ddhi)
• Manchu: ᠮᡠᡴ᠋ᡩᡝᠨ (mukden)
• Māori: tōnuitanga, houkuratanga
• Middle English: welthe
• Occitan: prosperitat (oc) f
• Persian: خوشبختی (fa) (xošbaxti), کامروایی (kāmravāyī), بهروزی (fa) (behruzi)
• Polish: dobrobyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: prosperidade (pt) f
• Romanian: prosperitate (ro) f
• Russian: преуспева́ние (ru) n (preuspevánije), процвета́ние (ru) n (procvetánije), благосостоя́ние (ru) n (blagosostojánije)
• Sanskrit: ऋद्धि (sa) f (ṛddhi), स्वस्ति (sa) n (svasti)
• Scottish Gaelic: àigh, piseach m
• Serbo-Croatian: imućstvo n
• Slovak: prosperita f
• Spanish: prosperidad (es) f
• Swedish: välstånd (sv)
• Tagalog: kasaganaan, kaunlaran, kariwasaan
• Thai: ความรุ่งเรือง (th) (kwaam-rûng-rʉʉang)
• Turkish: refah (tr), gönenç (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: عمارت (ʼimaret), عمران (ʼümran)

• Ukrainian: процвіта́ння n (procvitánnja), добро́бут m (dobróbut)
• Volapük: plöp (vo)

Further reading

• “prosperity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prosperity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.