feliz

Borrowed from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem.

feliz (epicene, plural felices)

1. happy

• contentu, gayoleru, gayasperu

• felicidá

From Old Galician-Portuguese feliz, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fēlīx, fēlīcem which displaced the inherited form fiiz; from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”).

feliz m or f (plural felices)

1. happy

   Synonym: ledo

   Antonyms: infeliz, triste

• felizmente

• felicidade
• felicitar
• infeliz

• “feliz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “feliz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “feliz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “feliz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

• “feliz”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• felice (obsolete, poetic)

From Old Galician-Portuguese feliz, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin fēlīcem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-lw-i, from *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle”). The Old Galician-Portuguese form fiiz, however, was popularly inherited, but later replaced by feliz, in a process of restoration.[1]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
• Hyphenation: fe‧liz

feliz m or f (plural felizes, comparable, comparative mais feliz, superlative o mais feliz or felicíssimo, diminutive felizinho)

1. happy

   Synonym: alegre

   Antonyms: infeliz, triste

2. fortunate

   Antonym: infeliz

• felizmente

• felicidade
• felicitar
• infeliz

• Kabuverdianu: filís

• “feliz” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin fēlīcem.[1] Compare Catalan feliç.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /feˈliθ/ [feˈliθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /feˈlis/ [feˈlis]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: fe‧liz

feliz m or f (masculine and feminine plural felices)

1. happy, merry (trait)

   Synonym: alegre

   Antonyms: infeliz, triste

   Él es un tipo feliz en general. ― He's just a happy guy in general.

2. pleased, glad

   Synonym: contento

3. joyous, merry, happy

   una ocasión feliz ― a joyous occasion

• “feliz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014