beltat

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• beutat

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bellitātem, accusative of *bellitās (“beauty”), derived from Latin bellus (“beautiful”).

Noun

beltat f (oblique plural beltats, nominative singular beltat, nominative plural beltats)

1. beauty
   • 1180s, Bertran de Born, Rassa, tant creis e mont'e poia, collected in The Poems of the Troubadour Bertran de Born, published 1986, page 97, lines 5–6:

     Qe·l vezers de sa beltat loia ¶ los pros a sos ops, cui que doia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → Old Italian: beltate, beltade
  • Italian: beltà