belle
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
- A fellow gay man.[1]
TranslationsEdit
beautiful woman
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- belle at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
belle
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
belle
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
DescendantsEdit
NounEdit
belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
Derived termsEdit
Coordinate termsEdit
(girlfriend):
Further readingEdit
- “belle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ɛlə
VerbEdit
belle
- inflection of bellen:
InterlinguaEdit
AdjectiveEdit
belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
belle
NounEdit
belle f
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)
AdverbEdit
bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “belle”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “belle”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- belle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
NormanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
AdjectiveEdit
belle
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
belle f
- bell
- bellan hringan
- to ring a bell
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
- Se dēofol wearp ānne stān tō þǣre bellan þæt hēo eall tōsprang.
- The Devil threw a rock at the bell so it broke into pieces.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of belle (weak)
DescendantsEdit
- Middle English: belle
TurkishEdit
VerbEdit
belle