Where does “beatific” come from?
Beatific comes from Latin beatificus, formed from beatus, meaning blessed, and facio, meaning to make, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-, to place or put.
beatific (English): blessed, blissful, heavenly; having a benign...
Definitions
- blessed, blissful, heavenly; having a benign...
Ancestry of “beatific”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | beatificus | that makes happy; blessing, beatific |
| 2 | Latin | beātus | — |
| 3 | Latin | beo | I bless; I gladden; I enrich |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | dweos | happy |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | dwejos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |
Words derived from “beatific”