| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| felicitate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fe·lic·i·tate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f -ls -t t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: fe·lic·i·tat·ed, fe·lic·i·tat·ing, fe·lic·i·tates
1. To offer congratulations to: “I felicitate you on your memory, sir” (John Fowles). 2. Archaic To make happy. | | ADJECTIVE: | Obsolete Made happy. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin f l citre, flcitt-, to make happy, from flx, flc-, fortunate. See dh(i)- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fe·lici·tator —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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