beatitude
Meaningblessedness
Common meaning: supreme blessedness
- beatblessed, happyLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 225 · scan
- itudenoun ending: the state of
Journey through time
- Latinbeātus, -a, -um‘blessed, happy’
- Frenchbeatitude
- Englishbeatitude‘supreme blessedness’ · today
beat also in: beatify
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin beātus ‘blessed, happy’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry beātus, p. 225 · dictionary scan
Roots
- beātus, -a, -um Latin “blessed, happy”
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