beltate

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /belˈta.te/
  • Rhymes: -ate
  • Hyphenation: bel‧tà‧te

Noun

beltate f (plural beltati)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of beltà (“beauty”)
    • c. 1294, Dante Alighieri, “Coll'altre donne mia vista gabbate”, in La Vita Nuova [The New Life]‎, Venice: Antonelli editrice, published 1865, page 28:
      Coll'altre donne mia vista gabbate
      E non pensate, donna, onde si mova
      ch'io vi rassembri sì figura nova,
      Quando riguardo la vostra beltate
      With the other ladies you mock my looks, and do not think, lady, why it is that I am seized by such a strange appearance when I gaze upon your beauty.
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “La sera desiar, odiar l'aurora [Desire the evening, and hate the dawn]”, in Il Canzoniere‎, Florence: Andrea Bettini, published 1858, page 20, lines 4–8:
      La mattina è per me più felice ora:
      Che spesso in un momento apron allora,
      L'un Sole e l'altro quasi duo levanti,
      Di beltate e di lume sì sembianti,
      Ch'anco 'l ciel della terra s'innamora
      The morning is for me the happier hour: when sometimes we see them in one moment, the one sun and the other like two Orients, so alike in beauty and in radiance even that heaven is in love with earth
    • 1623, Giambattista Marino, “Canto XI [Canto 11]”, in L'Adone [Adonis]‎, collected in Tutte le opere di Giovan Battista Marino, volume 2, tomo 1, Milan: A. Mondadori, published 1976:
      e qual cosa si può fra le create
      più bella ritrovar dela beltate?
      And how can anything be found, among the things created, more beautiful than beauty?
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