beate Latin · revision 32267

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la beō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''beātē''' (comparative beātius, superlative beātissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|beātus|-ē|t1=happy, blessed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|beātus]] is the participle of [[m|la|beō|t=to make happy]], whose origin de Vaan finds unclear: a link with [[m|la|bonus|t=good]], from [[itc-pro|*dwejo-]] beside [[m|itc-pro|*dwenos]], is attractive in meaning but hard to explain in form.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Catullus,^(Köbler 2010) who pairs it with [[bene]]: “I am not badly off, but well and happily”.^(TLL) Cicero, in the ''Brutus'', speaks of living well and happily.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means happily, often with [[bene]] and of living.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Seneca the Elder uses it of speaking excellently or felicitously, as when he says how much better Virgil put a thought, and of filling a place lavishly or abundantly.^(OLD 2012) Seneca applies it to the happiness of Diogenes.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of being well and happily off.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of living happily.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of the happy life of Diogenes.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|happily|alt=Happily]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Excellently, [[m|en|felicitously]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Lavishly, abundantly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[beatus|alt=beātus]]

+ * [[beo|alt=beō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}