Beat

From Latin Beatus, a masculine form of Beata.

Beat

1. (Uri) a male given name from Latin

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 11.

Borrowed from English beat.

• IPA^(key): /biːt/

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• Homophone: biet

Beat m (strong, genitive Beats or Beat, plural Beats)

1. (music) beat
   1. (countable) the pulse of a metre

      Synonym: Grundschlag

   2. (countable, by extension) percussion creating a rhythm
      • 2007, “36Grad”, performed by 2raumwohnung:

        Sechsunddreißig Grad, / Und es wird noch heißer. / Mach den Beat nie wieder leiser!

        Thirty-six degrees, / And it’s getting even hotter. / Never turn down the beat anymore!

   3. (uncountable) beat music (genre of the 1960s)

      Synonym: Beatmusik

• beatboxen
• Afrobeat

Ultimately from Latin beatus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːat/

Beat m (proper noun, strong, genitive Beats or (with an article) Beat, feminine Beate)

1. a male given name

• Almost entirely restricted to Switzerland, unlike the feminine Beate.

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• “Beat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache