Beatrice

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See also: Béatrice

English

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Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (she who makes happy), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”).

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Beatrice

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      :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, chapter II, in The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London:
      Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.
    • 2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, 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.
  2. A city, the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States.

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

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Beatrice

  1. a female given name, Italian and English variant of Beatrix

Italian

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  • IPA(key): /be.aˈtri.t͡ʃe/
  • Rhymes: -itʃe
  • Hyphenation: Be‧a‧trì‧ce

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Beatrice f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Beatrice

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Latin

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Beātrīce

  1. ablative singular of Beātrīx

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Beatrice f

  1. a female given name from Beatrice

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Beatrice c (genitive Beatrices)

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