beatus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin beātus. === Noun === beatus (plural beati) (religion) A person who has been beatified. === Anagrams === beauts == Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of beō (“make happy”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [beˈaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [beˈaː.tus] === Adjective === beātus (feminine beāta, neuter beātum, comparative beātior, superlative beātissimus, adverb beātē); first/second-declension adjective happy, (truly) happy, blessed, fortunate prosperous, wealthy, rich copious, sumptuous (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) blessed ==== Declension ==== Sometimes poetic beātum is seen for beātōrum. First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== beō ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === beātus m (genitive beātī, feminine beāta); second declension happy or fortunate person ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.