beatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of beō (“make happy”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /beˈaː.tus/, [bɛˈaː.tʊs]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective
beātus (feminine beāta, neuter beātum); first/second declension
- happy, fortunate
- prosperous, wealthy
- copious, sumptuous
- (substantive) happy or fortunate person
- (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) blessed
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | beātus | beāta | beātum | beātī | beātae | beāta | |
| Genitive | beātī | beātae | beātī | beātōrum | beātārum | beātōrum | |
| Dative | beātō | beātae | beātō | beātīs | beātīs | beātīs | |
| Accusative | beātum | beātam | beātum | beātōs | beātās | beāta | |
| Ablative | beātō | beātā | beātō | beātīs | beātīs | beātīs | |
| Vocative | beāte | beāta | beātum | beātī | beātae | beāta | |
- comparative: beātior, superlative: beātissimus
- Sometimes poetic beātum is seen for beātōrum.
Related terms
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
- (ambiguous) to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
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