filix
Latin
Alternative forms
- felix
Etymology
Likely from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“henbane”) + -ix / -ex, the suffix found in other plant-names, with vowel assimilation. Cognate to Welsh bele, Russian белена́ (belená), Czech blín, Middle Dutch bilse, Old English belene, German Bilsenkraut all meaning "henbane".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.liks/, [ˈfɪlʲɪks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfi.liks/, [ˈfiːliks]
Noun
filix f (genitive filicis); third declension
- fern
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | filix | filicēs |
| Genitive | filicis | filicum |
| Dative | filicī | filicibus |
| Accusative | filicem | filicēs |
| Ablative | filice | filicibus |
| Vocative | filix | filicēs |
Derived terms
- filicātus
- filictum
- filicula
- *filicāria
Descendants
- Aromanian: fearicã
- Galician: felgo, felga
- Interlingua: filice
- Italian: felce
- Portuguese: felga
- Romanian: ferigă
- Romansch: felisch
- Sardinian: filiche, filighe, filixi, fibixi, fixibi
- Sicilian: fìlici
- Venetian: féłese, féles, félse
- Walloon: fetchire
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *filicaria
- Catalan: falguera
- French: fougère
- Occitan: falguièra
- Old Portuguese: felgueyra
- Galician: folgueira
- Portuguese: felgueira
- ⇒ Late Latin: filicicula
- Catalan: falzilla
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “filix”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “filix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “filix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- filix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette