beauté

See also: beaute

"Une beauté" often means a beautiful young woman.

French

Etymology

From Middle French beauté, from Old French biauté, from Medieval Latin *bellitās (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.te/

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Noun

beauté f (plural beautés)

1. beauty

Related terms

• beau

Further reading

• “beauté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

beauté f (plural beautez)

1. Alternative form of beaulté

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Old French

Noun

beauté oblique singular, f (oblique plural beautez, nominative singular beauté, nominative plural beautez)

1. Alternative form of biauté