Beatrice

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Beatrice

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Beats

Etymology edit

Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”), influenced by beata.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈbiː(ə)tɹɪs/, /biˈætrɪs/
(Philippine) IPA^(key): /beəˈtɹɪs/
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Proper noun edit

Beatrice

A female given name from Latin.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
  :Scene II:
  I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice.
- 1797, William Roscoe, chapter II, in The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London:
  Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.
- 2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 132:
  "Seventeen years old - a senior in high school. Beatrice, her name is."
  Beatrice! Rebecca was struck dumb with admiration. Beatrice would be a female version of Tristram. Rebecca pictured her in a modest muslin dress from the nineteeth century, although she knew that was unlikely.
A city, the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States.