beleza
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Galician
Etymology
Compare Portuguese beleza, Spanish belleza.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: be‧le‧za
Noun
beleza f (plural belezas)
- beauty (property of being attractive, pleasing, fine, or good-looking)
- beauty (someone who is beautiful)
- beauty (something that is particularly good or pleasing)
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan belleza or Italian bellezza, both from Vulgar Latin *bellitia, a noun based on Latin bellus (“pretty”). By surface analysis, belo + -eza. Compare Spanish belleza and Catalan bellesa.
Pronunciation
Noun
beleza f (plural belezas)
- beauty (the condition of being beautiful)
- 1962, “Garota de Ipanema”, Vinicius de Moraes (lyrics), Antônio Carlos Jobim (music):
- ah, a beleza que existe
a beleza que não é só minha
que também passa sozinha- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- beauty (a beautiful thing or person)
Derived terms
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Interjection
beleza
- (Brazil, informal) what's up? (informal greeting)
- (Brazil, informal) all right; okay (used either as a question or answer/agreement)
- (Brazil, informal) a response to the greeting “Beleza?”
Alternative forms
References
- ^ “beleza” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “beleza” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- ^ “beleza” in iDicionário Aulete.
Further reading
beleza on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
