Given name & surname
Benedito
“well”·“to speak”
Benedito is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese and Old Galician-Portuguese.
Original LatinBenedictus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Benedito is built from elements meaning “well” and “to speak”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Benedito developed from Benedictus.
Benedito’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Benedito developed from the Latin form Benedictus. In Portuguese usage, Benedito has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Benito. In Portuguese usage, Benedito has a conventional equivalent in the English form Benedict.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Benedito has relatives in 40 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Benedito comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 44
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Benedictusroot · Latin
- BenedictEnglish, Romanian
- Benequivalent
- BenitoItalian, Spanish
- Baruchequivalent
- Bentodoublet · Portuguese
- Benoitequivalent
- BenedettoNeapolitan, Italian
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- Barakequivalent
- Bennoequivalent
- BenediktGerman, nov
- Benoequivalent
- BengtSwedish
- BenedekHungarian
- BenetCatalan
- Bendixequivalent
- BenoîtFrench
- Benéequivalent
- Beneadequivalent
- Benedyktequivalent
- Beneditafeminine form
- BenedetoVenetian
- Benedìtteroa-tara
- BinidittuSicilian
- ВенедиктRussian
- BendikNorwegian Bokmål
- Bénédictroa-nor
- Beneîtroa-nor
- BenesetOccitan
- BenwaHaitian Creole
- ΒενέδικτοςGreek
- BieitoGalician
- BenedetFriulian, Aragonese
- Benêtfrp
- BénézetFrench
- PenttiFinnish
- Benedituext
- BenediktoEsperanto, Slovene
- BentDanish
- BenedigBreton
- BenedictuAsturian, rup
- ԲենեդիկտոսArmenian
- Binidiktuay
- Bẽeitodoublet · roa-opt
People named Benedito
- Benedito CalixtoBrazilian artist (1853-1927)
- Benedito RobertoPortuguese archbishop (1946-2020)
- AssisBrazilian footballer and manager (1952–2014)
- Benedito Francisco de AlbuquerqueBrazilian Roman Catholic bishopborn 1928
- BelmonteBrazilian painter, caricaturist, cartoonist, chronicler, and illustrator (1896-1947)
- Benedito de Ulhôa VieiraBrazilian Roman-Catholic priest, archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Uberaba1920–2014
- Benedito Ruy BarbosaBrazilian screenwriter and author (1931–2026)
- Benedito Beni dos SantosBrazilian priestborn 1937
- Benedito Gonçalves dos SantosBrazilian priestborn 1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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