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Felicity is a feminine given name of English origin meaning "happiness".It is derived from the Latin word felicitas meaning "luck, good fortune". [1] It is also used as a form of the Latin name Felicitas, taken from the name of the Ancient Roman goddess Fortuna. [2]
The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective felix, meaning "happy, lucky", though in the neuter plural form felicia it literally means "happy things" and often occurred in the phrase tempora felicia, "happy times". The sense of it as a feminine personal name appeared in post-Classical use and is of uncertain origin.
The feast of Saint Felicitas of Rome was first mentioned in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" as celebrated on 25 January. From a very early date her feast as a martyr was solemnly celebrated in the Roman Church on that date, as shown by the fact that on that day Saint Gregory the Great delivered a homily in the Basilica that rose above her tomb.
Felix is a masculine given name that originates from the Latin word felix [ˈfeːliːks] (genitive felicis [feːˈliːkɪs]), meaning "happy" or "lucky". The feminine forms are Felicia or Felicity. [1] The name was popularized by early Christian saints and Roman emperors.
Felicitas Augusta holding a caduceus and a cornucopia, two symbols of health and wealth, on the reverse of an aureus issued under the emperor Valerian. In ancient Roman culture, felicitas (from the Latin adjective felix, "fruitful, blessed, happy, lucky") is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or happiness.
Felicia and Leonard had a rocky relationship, but they reconciled before her death. Felicia wrote a letter to Leonard after his multiple affairs with men and women during their relationship.
Perpetua and Felicity (Latin: Perpetua et Felicitas; c. 182 [6] – c. 203) were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. [7]
Felicia Sanders survived the shooting shielding her granddaughter while watching Roof kill her son, Tywanza, and her aunt, Susie Jackson. ... Sanders brought her bullet-torn bloodstained Bible to ...