beatitudo

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /be.aː.tiˈtuː.doː/, [beäːt̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /be.a.tiˈtu.do/, [beät̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

beātitūdō f (genitive beātitūdinis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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’s 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.