belo

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish velo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelo/,
• Hyphenation: be‧lo

Noun

bélo (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. veil

   Synonym: sakbod

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from French vélo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːlo/

Noun

belo f (plural beloioù)

1. bicycle

Inflection

g=f

Synonyms

• marc'h-houarn

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Verb

belo

1. first-person singular present indicative of belar

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: be‧lo

Noun

belo (uncountable, accusative belon)

1. beauty

   Synonym: beleco

   Antonym: malbelo

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from English bell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beːloː/

Noun

belo

1. work break

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese bel, bela; borrowed from Old Occitan bel, from Latin bellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlʊ/

Adjective

belo (feminine bela, masculine plural belos, feminine plural belas)

1. (literary) beautiful

   Synonyms: fermoso, guapo

   Son merecentes dun belo poema.

   They deserve a beautiful poem.

Further reading

• “belo” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “bel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “belo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “belo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “belo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: bè‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from belare (“to bleat”) +‎ -o.

Noun

belo m (plural beli)

1. (literary) bleat (cry of a sheep or a goat)

   Synonym: belato

Related terms

• belare
• belato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

belo

1. first-person singular present indicative of belare

Further reading

• belo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese bel, from Latin bellus, from Proto-Indo-European *dw-ene-, adverbial form of *deu- (“to do, perform, revere, show favor”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: be‧lo

Adjective

belo (feminine bela, masculine plural belos, feminine plural belas, comparable, comparative mais belo, superlative o mais belo or belíssimo)

1. beautiful; attractive (having beauty)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:belo.

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

belo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of beo

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

belo

1. pole, post

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

belo

1. to lick

Further reading

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bellow (horns signifying midday).

Noun

belo

1. noon

West Makian

Etymology

Possibly related to belu (“to lick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.l̪o/

Noun

belo

1. the tongue

   Synonym: belubelu

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics