Old French edit

 
The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. Bellezour is the penultimate word of the first line.

Etymology edit

Roger Berger suggests an unattested Latin masculine/feminine accusative *bellātiōrem, comparative of an equally unattested *bellātus (“too beautiful”, though note an attestation of belliātus in Plautus), derived from Latin bellus (beautiful). Compare Silver Latin bonātus (too good, meek) (attested in Petronius) and its derived neuter comparative *bonātius attested as Old French bonace (too good, meek), modern French bonasse, from Latin bonus (good), and also Late Latin malātus (fairly bad), from Latin malus (bad).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

bellezour m or f

  1. superlative degree of bel (most beautiful)

References edit

  • Berger, Roger (2004), Brasseur, Annette, editor, Buona Pulcella Fut Eulalia, volume 233, Librairie Droz, →ISBN, pages 139-140
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (belisor)
  • Porter, L. C. 1960. The "Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie": Phonology and Graphemics. Studies in Philology 57. 587–596.
  1. ^ Porter 1960: 595