Beatific etymology

English

English word beatific comes from Latin beatus (blessed) and Latin ficare (I stick in, put in), and later Latin beatifico (I bless)

Etymology of beatific

Detailed word origin of beatific

Dictionary entry Language Definition
beatus Latin (lat) (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) blessed. (substantive) happy or fortunate person. Copious, sumptuous. Happy, fortunate. Prosperous, wealthy.
ficare Latin (lat)
beatifico Latin (lat) I bless. I make happy.
beatify English (en) (transitive) To make blissful.. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
beatific English (en) Blessed, blissful, heavenly. Having a benign appearance.

Words with the same origin as beatific

Descendants of beatus

beatitude

Descendants of ficare

justify