Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#BEATUSCategory:English terms derived from Latin#BEATUS beātus.

Noun

beatus (plural beati)Category:English lemmas#BEATUSCategory:English nouns#BEATUSCategory:English countable nouns#BEATUSCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#BEATUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEATUSCategory:Pages with entries#BEATUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEATUS

1. (religionCategory:en:Religion#BEATUS) A person who has been beatified.

Anagrams

• beauts

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of beō (“make happy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [beˈaː.tʊs]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#BEATUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#BEATUS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [beˈaː.tus]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#BEATUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#BEATUS

Adjective

beātus (feminine beāta, neuter beātum, comparative beātior, superlative beātissimus, adverb beātē)Category:Latin lemmas#BEATUSCategory:Latin adjectives#BEATUSCategory:Latin first and second declension adjectives#BEATUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#BEATUSCategory:Pages with entries#BEATUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEATUS; first/second-declension adjective

1. happy, (truly) happy, blessed, fortunate
2. prosperous, wealthy, rich
3. copious, sumptuous
4. (Medieval LatinCategory:Medieval Latin#BEATUS, Ecclesiastical LatinCategory:Ecclesiastical Latin#BEATUS) blessed
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Proverbs.3.13:

     beātus homō quī invenit sapientiam et quī affluit prūdentiā

     Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom and is rich in prudence (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#BEATUS

Noun

beātus m (genitive beātī, feminine beāta)Category:Latin lemmas#BEATUSCategory:Latin nouns#BEATUSCategory:Latin second declension nouns#BEATUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#BEATUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#BEATUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#BEATUSCategory:Pages with entries#BEATUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BEATUS; second declension

1. happy or fortunate person

References

• “beatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “beatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “beatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
    
  • (ambiguous) happiness, bliss: beata vita, beate vivere, beatum esse
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook