Morpheme
Felice
Type
bound base
Denotation
happy, lucky, blessed, fortunate, favorable, fertile, fruitful, prosperous
Etymology
Latin fēlīcis, from fēlīx
Evidence
Felicia, felicific, felicitate, felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation, felicitator, felicitously, felicity, infelicity, infelicity, unfelicitated, unfelicitating, unfelicity
Notes
classical base analysis
Modern Base Analysis
<Felicite> denoting “felicity”
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal construction -itous
from felicity, from Latin fēlīcitās, from fēlīx + -tās
felicitous, infelicitous
