cœlest

Internationalism, likely from a mistaken æ for œ. Ultimately from Latin caelum (“sky”).

See the lemma for further reading.

cœlest (comparative cœlestare, superlative cœlestast)

1. 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.

• This spelling is etymologically inconsistent, and may be considered an erroneous variant of cælest. The latter, however, is not so common as this spelling.