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] (dated)
Derived termsEdit
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
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belle
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
belle
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Derived terms
DescendantsEdit
NounEdit
belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
Coordinate termsEdit
(girlfriend):
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “belle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
belle
- inflection of bellen:
InterlinguaEdit
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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. 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 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
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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)
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VerbEdit
belle