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Where does “felicity” come from?

Felicity comes from Old French felicité, from Latin felicitas, formed with the Latin suffix -itas from a Proto-Indo-European root dʰeh₁(y)- meaning to place or put.

felicity (English): Happiness; An apt and pleasing style in speech,...

Definitions

  1. Happiness; An apt and pleasing style in speech,...

Ancestry of “felicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfēlīcitās—
2LatinFēlīx—

Words derived from “felicity”

  • felicitous
  • felicitously
  • infelicity
  • infelicitous
  • infelicitously
  • felicitousness
  • unfelicitous
  • unfelicitously
  • infelicitousness
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