belle

See also: Belle, bèlle, Bellé, belle-, and beḷḷẽ

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

NounEdit

belle (plural belles)

1. An attractive woman.

   In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

TranslationsEdit

beautiful woman

• Belarusian: прыгажу́ня f (pryhažúnja), красу́ня f (krasúnja)
• Bulgarian: краса́вица (bg) f (krasávica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美女 (zh) (měinǚ), 美人 (zh) (měirén)

• Czech: kráska f, krasavice f
• Esperanto: belulino
• Finnish: kaunotar (fi)
• French: belle (fr) f, beauté (fr) f
• German: Schönheit (de) f, Schöne f
• Japanese: 美人 (ja) (びじん, bijin), 美女 (ja) (びじょ, bijo), 別嬪 (ja) (べっぴん, beppin)

• Macedonian: уба́вица f (ubávica)
• Polish: piękność (pl) f
• Portuguese: beldade (pt) f, bela (pt) f
• Russian: краса́вица (ru) f (krasávica), красо́тка (ru) f (krasótka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лепотица f, љепотица f, лепојка f, љепојка f

  Roman: lepotica (sh) f, ljepotica (sh) f, lepojka f, ljepojka (sh) f

• Slovak: krásavica f, kráska f
• Slovene: lepotica f
• Ukrainian: красу́ня f (krasúnja)

See alsoEdit

• belle assemblée
• belle dame
• belle laide

• belle passion
• belles-lettres

AnagramsEdit

• Lebel

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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VerbEdit

belle

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

AdjectiveEdit

belle

1. feminine singular of beau

Derived termsEdit

• Bellefontaine

NounEdit

belle f (plural belles)

1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty

Further readingEdit

• “belle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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GermanEdit

VerbEdit

belle

1. First-person singular present of bellen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
4. Imperative singular of bellen.

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InterlinguaEdit

AdjectiveEdit

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

1. beautiful

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

belle

1. feminine plural of bello

NounEdit

belle f

1. plural of bella

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)

AdverbEdit

bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)

1. well, neatly, perfectly
2. prettily, delightfully

Related termsEdit

• bellus
• bonus

ReferencesEdit

• belle in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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, 1883–1887)
• belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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NormanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio (Jersey)

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AdjectiveEdit

belle

1. feminine singular of bieau
2. feminine singular of biau

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TurkishEdit

VerbEdit

belle

1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek