Beatrice

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Quotations 1.3.3 Translations 2 German 2.1 Proper noun 3 Italian 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Proper noun 4 Swedish 4.1 Proper noun

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[edit] Etymology

Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix "she who makes happy".

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• IPA: /ˈbɪətrɪs/, SAMPA: /"bI@trIs/

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Singular Beatrice

Plural -

Beatrice

1. A female given name.

[edit] Usage notes

• Used in the Middle Ages and once again popular around 1900.

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• 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II: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, The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London 1797, Chapter II:

  Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.

• 2001 Anne Tyler, Alfred A. Knopf 2001, Back When We Were Grownups, ISBN 0375412530, 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.

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Beatrice

1. A female given name, Italian and English form of Beatrix.

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌbeaˈtritʃɛ/

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Beatrice

1. A female given name, equivalent of English Beatrice.

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Beatrice

1. A female given name of Latin origin, used since the 19th century.