beatitudo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin beātus

Proto-Indo-European *-tu-

Proto-Indo-European *-d-

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Italic *-tūdō

Latin -tūdō

Latin beātitūdō

From beātus (“happy; blessed”) + -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [be.aː.tɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [be.a.tiˈtuː.do]

Noun

beātitūdō f (genitive beātitūdinis); third declension

1. Happiness, blessedness, felicity, beatitude, blissfulness.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	beātitūdō	beātitūdinēs
genitive	beātitūdinis	beātitūdinum
dative	beātitūdinī	beātitūdinibus
accusative	beātitūdinem	beātitūdinēs
ablative	beātitūdine	beātitūdinibus
vocative	beātitūdō	beātitūdinēs

Synonyms

• (blessedness, beatitude): beātitās

Related terms

• beātē
• beātificō
• beātificus
• beātitās
• beātulus
• beātum
• beātus
• beō

Descendants

• → English: beatitude (learned)
• → French: béatitude (learned)
• → Italian: beatitudine (learned)
• → Romanian: beatitudine (learned)
• → Spanish: beatitud (learned)

References

• “beatitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "beatitudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “beatitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.