different between belle vs delphine

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?l/

Noun

belle (plural belles)

1. An attractive woman.

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

2. A fellow gay man.

Translations

See also

References

• belle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Lebel

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belle

1. (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

1. feminine singular of beau

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: belle
• English: Belle

Noun

belle f (plural belles)

1. beautiful woman, belle, beauty
2. (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

1. inflection of bellen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)

1. beautiful

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Adjective

belle

1. feminine plural of bello

Noun

belle f

1. plural of bella

Latin

Etymology

From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)

Adverb

bell? (comparative bellius, superlative bellissim?)

1. well, neatly, perfectly
2. 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

1. feminine singular of bieau
2. 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

1. bell
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: belle
  • Scots: bell
  • English: bell
    • ? Fiji Hindi: belo
    • ? Japanese: ?? (beru)

Turkish

Verb

belle

1. second-person singular imperative of bellemek

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?d??fi?n]

Adjective

delphine (comparative more delphine, superlative most delphine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of dolphins.

Synonyms

• dolphinlike

Latin

Noun

delph?ne

1. vocative singular of delph?nus