belle
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French belle (“beautiful”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bella.
Pronunciation
Noun
belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
Translations
beautiful woman
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See also
Further reading
- “belle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
belle
French
Etymology
From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
belle
Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
Coordinate terms
(girlfriend):
Further reading
- “belle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Verb
belle
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of bellen.
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of bellen.
Interlingua
Adjective
belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)
Italian
Adjective
belle
Noun
belle f
Latin
Etymology
From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)
Adverb
bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)
Related terms
References
- “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.
Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Adjective
belle
Old English
Etymology
From earlier *bellæ, from North Sea Germanic *bellǣ, from West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Declension
Declension of belle (weak)
Descendants
- Middle English: belle
Turkish
Verb
belle
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