belle

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See also: Belle, bèlle, Bellé, belle-, and beḷḷẽ

English

Etymology

From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.

Pronunciation

Noun

belle (plural belles)

  1. An attractive woman.
    In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
  2. (dated) A fellow gay man.[1]

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See also

References

  • “belle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang," Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of bellen

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine singular of beau

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: belle
  • English: Belle

Noun

belle f (plural belles)

  1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
  2. (Louisiana) girlfriend

Coordinate terms

(girlfriend):

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Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

  1. inflection of bellen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

  1. beautiful

Italian

Pronunciation

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine plural of bello

Noun

belle f

  1. plural of bella

Latin

Etymology

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”).

Adverb

bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)

  1. well, neatly, perfectly
  2. prettily, delightfully

Derived 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

Adjective

belle

  1. feminine singular of bieau
  2. feminine singular of biau

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

Pronunciation

Noun

belle f

  1. 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

Weak:

singular plural
nominative belle bellan
accusative bellan bellan
genitive bellan bellena
dative bellan bellum

Descendants

Turkish

Verb

belle

  1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek
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