Etymology

Quotations

• I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that , in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice.

• 1797 William Roscoe, The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London 1797, Chapter II:

  Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.

• 2001 Anne Tyler, Alfred A. Knopf 2001, Back When We Were Grownups, ISBN 0375412530, page 132:

  "Seventeen years old - a senior in high school. Beatrice, her name is."

  Beatrice! Rebecca was struck dumb with admiration. Beatrice would be a female version of Tristram. Rebecca pictured her in a modest muslin dress from the nineteeth century, although she knew that was unlikely.

Proper noun

1. , Italian and English form of Beatrix.

Proper noun

1. , equivalent of English Beatrice.

Proper noun

1. of origin, used since the 19th century.