felice

felice (comparative plus felice, superlative le plus felice)

1. happy; fortunate

• filice (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin fēlīcem.

• IPA^(key): /feˈli.t͡ʃe/^[1]

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• Homophone: Felice
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Hyphenation: fe‧lì‧ce

felice m or f by sense (plural felici, superlative felicissimo)

1. happy (contented)

   Antonym: infelice

2. glad

   Synonym: lieto

3. blessed, lucky

   Synonym: fortunato

   Antonym: sfortunato

4. (obsolete) an epithet given by monarchs to their states and subjects
5. (figurative) appropriate, apt, happy

   Synonyms: appropriato, opportuno

   Antonyms: inappropriato, inopportuno

6. (obsolete or literary) fertile, fruitful

   Synonyms: fecondo, fertile

   Antonyms: infecondo, infertile, sterile

• felicemente

• felicità
• felicitare
• felicitazione

• → Esperanto: feliĉa
• → Sardinian: felitze

• felice in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈliː.kɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈliː.t͡ʃe]

fēlīce

1. ablative masculine/feminine singular of fēlīx

• Hyphenation: fe‧li‧ce

felice m or f (plural felices)

1. archaic form of feliz

• “felice”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “felice”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /feˈliθe/ [feˈli.θe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /feˈlise/ [feˈli.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθe (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -ise (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: fe‧li‧ce

felice

1. archaic form of feliz

• “felice”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025