bénédicité

Borrowed from Latin benedīcite, a plural imperative of benedīcō (“to bless, to praise”) found as the first word of several grace prayers. Doublet of bénissez, second-person plural imperative of bénir.

• IPA^(key): /be.ne.di.si.te/
• Rhymes: -e

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• Hyphenation: bé‧né‧di‧ci‧té

bénédicité m (plural bénédicités)

1. grace (short prayer before or after a meal)

• “bénédicité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.