benedicite

See also: Benedicite and bénédicité

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin benedīcō (“I commend”), bene- +‎ dico.

Noun

benedicite m (uncountable)

1. grace (prayer said before a meal)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) benedīcite

1. second-person plural present active imperative of benedīcō

References

• benedicite in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Middle English

Interjection

benedicite

1. bless you
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale

     "What? Absolon, what? Christe's sweete tree, / Why rise so rath? hey! Benedicite, / What aileth you? some gay girl, God it wote, / Hath brought you thus upon the viretote […]