Arabia Felix

Latin

Arabia Felix

Alternative forms

• Arabia fēlīx
• Arabia Foelīx (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek Ἀραβία Εὐδαίμων (Arabía Eudaímōn), literally meaning “the well-off Arabia”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.a ˈfeː.liːks/, [äˈräbiä ˈfeːlʲiːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.a ˈfe.liks/, [äˈräːbiä ˈfɛːliks]

Proper noun

Arabia Fēlīx f sg (genitive Arabiae Fēlīcis); first declension

1. The Arabian Peninsula, especially South Arabia, (post-Classical) Yemen (region)
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A port-city of southern Arabia, modern Aden in Yemen

Declension

First-declension noun with a third-declension adjective, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arabia Fēlīx
Genitive	Arabiae Fēlīcis
Dative	Arabiae Fēlīcī
Accusative	Arabiam Fēlīcem
Ablative	Arabiā Fēlīcī
Vocative	Arabia Fēlīx

Coordinate terms

• Arabia Dēserta
• Arabia Petraea

See also

• German: glückliches Arabien, Glückliches Arabien

References

• “Arabia Felix”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Retsö, Jan (2000) “Where and what was Arabia Felix?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 30, →JSTOR, pages 189–92