beauté

See also: beaute
"Une beauté" often means a beautiful young woman.

French

Etymology

From Middle French beauté, from Old French biauté, from Medieval Latin *bellitās (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bo.te/
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Noun

beauté f (plural beautés)

  1. beauty

Further reading

Middle French

Noun

beauté f (plural beautez)

  1. Alternative form of beaulté

Old French

Noun

beauté f (oblique plural beautez, nominative singular beauté, nominative plural beautez)

  1. Alternative form of biauté
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