belle

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

belle (plural belles)

1. An attractive woman.

   In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

• belle at OneLook Dictionary Search

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belle

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen

From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.

• IPA^(key): /bɛl/

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belle

1. feminine singular of beau

• Bellefontaine

belle f (plural belles)

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

• “belle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

belle

1. First-person singular present of bellen.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of bellen.
4. Imperative singular of bellen.

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

1. beautiful

belle

1. feminine plural of bello

belle f

1. plural of bella

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)

bellē (comparative bellius, superlative bellissimē)

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

• bellus
• bonus

• 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, 1883–1887)
• belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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belle

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

From earlier *bellæ, from North Sea Germanic *bellǣ, from West Germanic *bellā, from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbel.le/

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.

• Middle English: belle
  • Scots: bell
  • English: bell

belle

1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek