Translation
happy, fortunate; blessed
Examples
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Blessed is the man who has not gone away.
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The happy life lies in virtue.
pauperes .
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
vocamus.
We all call the mother blessed.
vixit .
He lived happily and died happily.
Beatus, beata, beatum began as the perfect participle of beo, "make happy, enrich", and settled into a plain adjective of the first and second declension. The adverb is beate.
Classically it means fortunate and comfortably off: Horace's beatus is a man with land, wine and no creditors, and the beata vita of the philosophers is the successful life rather than the pious one. Christian Latin takes it over for "blessed", the Vulgate's word for the Beatitudes, and the Church then makes it technical: a Beatus has been beatified, one grade below a Sanctus who has been canonised. Read every beatus in Cicero as "saintly" and you turn an argument about happiness into a sermon.
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