Beatrice

See also: Béatrice

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː(ə)tɹɪs/, /biˈætrɪs/

Proper noun

Beatrice

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Ado: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, 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.

Usage notes

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

Translations

female given name

• Catalan: Beatriu (ca) f
• Dutch: Beatrijs, Beatrix (nl)
• Esperanto: Beatrica
• French: Béatrice (fr)

  Middle French: Beatris

• German: Beatrix (de)
• Greek: Βεατρίκη (el) f (Veatríki)
• Italian: Beatrice (it)
• Latin: Beatrix
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• Latvian: Beatrise f
• Polish: Beata (pl)
• Portuguese: Beatriz (pt) f
• Russian: Беатри́са (ru) f (Beatrísa), Беатри́с f (Beatrís)
• Scottish Gaelic: Beitris f
• Spanish: Beatriz (es)
• Swedish: Beatrice (sv)
• Welsh: Betrys f

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German

Proper noun

Beatrice

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.aˈtri.tʃe/
• Rhymes: -itʃe

Proper noun

Beatrice f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Beatrice.

Anagrams

• berciate

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Latin

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) Beātrīce

1. ablative singular of Beātrīx

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Swedish

Proper noun

Beatrice c (genitive Beatrices)

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