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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 9593838, member: 16407&quot;]The Beautiful History of Pulchritude</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Pulchritude</i> is a descendant of the Latin adjective <i>pulcher</i>, which means &quot;beautiful.&quot; <i>Pulcher</i> hasn&#039;t exactly been a wellspring of English terms, but it did give English both <i>pulchritude</i> and <i><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritudinous#other-words" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritudinous#other-words" rel="nofollow">pulchritudinous</a></i>, an adjective meaning &quot;attractive&quot; or &quot;beautiful.&quot; The verb <i>pulchrify</i> (a synonym of <i><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beautify" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beautify" rel="nofollow">beautify</a></i>), the noun <i>pulchritudeness</i> (same meaning as <i>pulchritude</i>), and the adjective <i>pulchrous</i>(meaning &quot;fair or beautiful&quot;) are other <i>pulcher</i> offspring, but those terms have proved that, in at least some linguistic cases, beauty is fleeting.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritude#:~:text=Pulchritude%20is%20a%20descendant%20of,synonym%20of%20beautify)%2C%20the%20noun" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritude#:~:text=Pulchritude%20is%20a%20descendant%20of,synonym%20of%20beautify)%2C%20the%20noun" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pulchritude#:~:text=Pulchritude is a descendant of,synonym of beautify), the noun</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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