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beatus
beatus
Latin
Adjective
beātus m (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 | beātō | beātīs | ||||
| accusative | beātum | beātam | beātum | beātōs | beātās | beāta | |
| ablative | beātō | beātā | beātō | beātīs | |||
| vocative | beāte | beāta | beātum | beātī | beātae | beāta | |
- comparative: beātior, superlative: beātissimus
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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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “beatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
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(ambiguous) happiness, bliss: beata vita, beate vivere, beatum esse
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(ambiguous) to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere