Benedetta
“The blessed one,” a Latin diminutive of Benedict, from benedicere, to speak well of.
Benedict
“The blessed one,” based on the Latin bene (well) and dicere (speak). As a word, rather than a name, benedict designates a recently married man, especially one who was long a bachelor, in allusion to Benedick, a character in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, who seemed to be a confirmed bachelor but finally fell in love with and married the clever Beatrice. Benedict was glorified, as a name, by sixteen Popes.