pulchritudo
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Alternative forms
- pulcritūdō
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pul.kʰriˈtuː.doː/, [pʊɫ̪kʰrɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pul.kriˈtu.do/, [pulkriˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun
pulchritūdō f (genitive pulchritūdinis); third declension
- beauty, attractiveness
- Synonyms: faciēs, decor, decus
- Antonyms: dēdecus, dehonestāmentum
- excellence
- (by extension) a beautiful thing
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: pulcritudine
- Middle English: pulcritude
- English: pulchritude
- Portuguese: pulcritude
- Spanish: pulcritud
References
- “pulchritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pulchritudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pulchritudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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