Latin

Alternative forms

• pulcritūdō

Noun

pulchritūdō f ‎(genitive pulchritūdinis); third declension

1. beauty, attractiveness
2. excellence
3. (by extension) a beautiful thing

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• pulcher
• pulchrē
• pulchrēscō

Descendants

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pulchritudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.