Where does “felicitous” come from?

Felicitous comes from Middle English felicitous, from Latin felicitōsus, derived from felicitas, meaning happiness or good fortune, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root dʰeh₁(y)-.

felicitous (English): Characterized by felicity; Of a sentence or...

Definitions

  1. Characterized by felicity; Of a sentence or...

Ancestry of “felicitous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfelicityHappiness; An apt and pleasing style in speech,...
2Latinfēlīcitās—
3LatinFēlīx—

Words derived from “felicitous”

Every word from Latin Fēlīx →Every word from Latin fēlīcitās →Every word from English felicity →
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