bellezze

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /belˈlet.t͡se/
• Rhymes: -ettse
• Hyphenation: bel‧léz‧ze

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bellezze f

1. plural of bellezza

Etymology 2

From a Vulgar Latin *bellitiēs, alternative form of *bellitia, derived from bellus (“beautiful”) +‎ -itiēs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare Old Sicilian billizzi.

Alternative forms

• belleze (alternative spelling)

Noun

bellezze f (rare, Romanesco and central Old Italian)

1. alternative form of bellezza (“beauty”)
   • 13^th century, “De Capitolio [About the Capitol]” (chapter 8), in Le miracole de Roma [The marvels of Rome] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Ernesto Monaci, editor, Le miracole de Roma - Versione dei Mirabilia Romae in volgare romanesco del dugento [The marvels of Rome - Version of the Mirabilia Romae in 13^th-century Roman vernacular]‎^[1], Rome: R[egia] società romana di storia patria, 1915, page 14:

     […] inperzò se dicea Capitolio de auro, ka sopra tutte le provincie de lo munno resplendea de molta sapientia et de molta belleze. (Romanesco)

     [ […] inperzò se dicea Capitolio de auro, ca sopra tutte le province de lo munno resplendea de molta sapienzia et de molta bellezze.]

     […] thus it was called the Golden Capitol, because it was shining with much knowledge and much beauty, above all other provinces of the world.