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belle
English
Etymology
From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?l/
Noun
belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
- A fellow gay man.
Translations
See also
References
- belle at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Lebel
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
belle
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen
French
Etymology
From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?l/
- Homophones: bel, belles
Adjective
belle
- feminine singular of beau
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: belle
- English: Belle
Noun
belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
Derived terms
- Belle au bois dormant
- se faire la belle
Coordinate terms
(girlfriend):
- beau
- blonde
- femme
- gars
- homme
Further reading
- “belle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?l?
Verb
belle
- inflection of bellen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Interlingua
Adjective
belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)
- beautiful
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lle
Adjective
belle
- feminine plural of bello
Noun
belle f
- plural of bella
Latin
Etymology
From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)
Adverb
bell? (comparative bellius, superlative bellissim?)
- well, neatly, perfectly
- prettily, delightfully
Related terms
- bellus
- bonus
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, 1883–1887)
- belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norman
Pronunciation
Adjective
belle
- feminine singular of bieau
- feminine singular of biau
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bell?, from Proto-Germanic *bell?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bel.le/, [?be?.?e]
Noun
belle f
- bell
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: belle
- Scots: bell
- English: bell
- ? Fiji Hindi: belo
- ? Japanese: ?? (beru)
Turkish
Verb
belle
- second-person singular imperative of bellemek
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belie
English
Alternative forms
- bely
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??la?/, /b??la?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??la?/, /b??la?/, /bi?la?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Etymology 1
From Middle English belyen, beliggen, from Old English belicgan, bilicgan (“to lie around, surround, hedge in, encompass”). Equivalent to be- (“around, by”) +? lie (“to be positioned”).
Verb
belie (third-person singular simple present belies, present participle belying, simple past belay, past participle belain)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lie around; encompass.
- (transitive, obsolete, of an army) To surround; beleaguer.
Etymology 2
From Middle English belyen, beleo?en, from Old English bel?ogan (“to deceive by lying, be mistaken”), from Proto-West Germanic *bileugan (“to belie”). Equivalent to be- (“about”) +? lie (“to deceive”). Compare German belügen (“to tell a lie”).
Verb
belie (third-person singular simple present belies, present participle belying, simple past and past participle belied)
- (transitive, archaic) To tell lies about. [from 13th c.]
- Synonyms: slander, calumniate
- (transitive) To give a false representation of. [from 17th c.]
- Synonym: misrepresent
- (transitive) To contradict, to show (something) to be false. [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: contradict, give lie to, give the lie to
- (transitive, rare) To call a liar; to accuse of falsehood. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive, rare) To fill with lies; to lie to.
- (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To conceal the contradictory or ironic presence of (something).
- (transitive, perhaps nonstandard) To show, evince or demonstrate (something) to be present, particularly something deemed contradictory or ironic.
- (obsolete) To mimic; to counterfeit.
Translations
Anagrams
- Elbie
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