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Swedish
Etymology
Internationalism, likely from a mistaken æ for œ. Ultimately from Latin caelum (“sky”).
See the lemma for further reading.
Adjective
cœlest (comparative cœlestare, superlative cœlestast)
- Obsolete spelling of celest (“celestial”)..
1851 August 26, “Bref från en Landsflyktig till A. B:s Utgifvare [Letter from a Refugee to A. B's Publisher.]”, in Svenska Morgonbladet, page 2:[…] – alls ingen elevation. min bror – intet spår till cœlest sentiment, ingen aning om de menskliga rättighe terna, hvarken de förytterliga eller oförytterliga.- – no elevation at all. my brother – no trace of celestial sentiment, no idea of human rights, neither the alienable nor the inalienable.
Usage notes
- This spelling is etymologically inconsistent, and may be considered an erroneous variant of cælest. The latter, however, is not so common as this spelling.