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Felix (Latin for "happy" or "lucky") is a male given name and surname. Felix may also refer to:

• Felix (newspaper), the weekly students' newspaper of Imperial College, London
• Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries
• Felix (programming language), an open source, community-based programming language
• Felix Austria, an Austrian food company
• Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc
• Felix B. Maduro, one of the biggest department stores in Panama
• Felix Bus Services of Derbyshire, England
• Felix Felicis, a potion that grants unusually good luck in the Harry Potter series
• Felix Holt, the Radical, a social novel written by George Eliot
• Felix in the Factory, a platform game for home computers published by Micro Power in 1982
• Felix, Net i Nika ("Felix, Net and Nika"), a series of Polish language science fiction books for teenagers
• "FELIX", the Free electron laser for Infrared experiments
• Felix, a bar-restaurant located in The Peninsula Hong Kong
• Felix, a meteorite which fell in Alabama in 1900
• Félix Faure, a station of the Paris Métro named after President Félix Faure
• Felix U. Gómez Station, a station on the Line 1 of the Monterrey Metro
• Felix the Cat, famous cartoon character
• Felix (musician), a British DJ

Places

• Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County
• Felix, Spain, a municipality of Almería province, in Andalusia, Spain
• Félix Aguilar Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Argentina
• Felix Varela High School, a secondary school in Miami, Florida
• Felixdorf, a municipality in Lower Austria
• Felixstowe, a town in Suffolk, England
• Arabia Felix, ancient Latin name for Yemen
• Băile Felix, a thermal spa resort in Western Transylvania, Romania
• Isla San Felix, an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile
• Port Felix , Nova Scotia, a small community in Guysborough County
• Saint-Félix, the name or part of the name of several communes in France
• St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a Canadian rural community in Prince County

See also

• Articles starting with Felix
• 1664 Felix, an asteroid
• AB Felix, a Swedish food company
• Apache Felix, an open source OSGi framework by Apache Software Foundation
• Hurricane Felix, a Category 5 hurricane that struck Central America in 2007
• Operation Felix, a German project to conquer Gibraltar
• St. Felix's Flood, a flood disaster that struck the Netherlands in 1530
• VB-6 Felix, an infrared-guided bomb

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

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Felix

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Etymology

From Latin Felix, meaning happy, lucky

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪilɪks/; SAMPA: /"fi:lIks/

Proper noun

Felix

1. A male given name.
2. A generic name given to a cat.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Acts 24:24

  And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

• 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, ISBN 0060842245, page 134:

  Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.

Related terms

• female given names: Felicia, Felicity

Translations

Czech

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Felix

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Proper noun

Felix m.

1. A male given name, cognate to Felix.

Danish

Proper noun

Felix

1. A male given name, cognate to Felix.

German

Proper noun

Felix

1. A male given name, cognate to Felix.

Latin

Etymology

felix "lucky, happy"

Proper noun

Felix

1. A Roman cognomen, later the name of early Christian saints.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Felix

1. A male given name, cognate to Felix.

Swedish

Proper noun

Felix

1. A male given name, cognate to Felix.

Related terms

• Felicia

From BibleWiki

Meaning: happy

The Roman procurator of Judea before whom Paul "reasoned" (Acts 24:25). He appears to have expected a bribe from Paul, and therefore had several interviews with him. The "worthy deeds" referred to in Acts 24:2 was his clearing the country of banditti and impostors.

At the end of a two years' term, Porcius Festus was appointed in the room of Felix (A.D. 60), who proceeded to Rome, and was there accused of cruelty and malversation of office by the Jews of Caesarea. The accusation was rendered nugatory by the influence of his brother Pallas with Nero. (See Josephus, Ant. xx. 8, 9.)

Drusilla, the daughter of Herod Agrippa, having been induced by Felix to desert her husband, the king of Emesa, became his adulterous companion. She was seated beside him when Paul "reasoned" before the judge. When Felix gave place to Festus, being "willing to do the Jews a pleasure," he left Paul bound.

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