Yes, it comes directly from the latin pulchritudo which my dictionary gives as "beauty, excellence" and which is quite common in Latin texts. To me, pulchritud

Yes, it comes directly from the latin pulchritudo which my dictionary gives as "beauty, excellence" and which is quite common in Latin texts. To me, pulchritude is such an ugly sounding word I can always remember the meaning as being the opposite of how it sounds. (Funny enough, I was just looking up to see if there is a name for words that sound opposite to their meaning and found this [0] discussion on the English stack exchange, which gives pulchritude as its example!) [0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/103741/name-for-a-word-whose-sound-is-contrary-to-its-meaning https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/103741/name-for-...