different between bells vs belle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?lz/

Noun

bells

1. plural of bell

Derived terms

• Bowbells
• peal of bells
• ring of bells

Noun

bells pl (plural only)

1. (nautical) Ship's bells; the strokes on a ship's bell, every half-hour, to mark the passage of time.
2. Short for bell-bottoms.
   • 2020, Erica Heller, One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us

     And to him, long bell-bottoms were “arrogant.” So, whenever he was home before I left for school, he would make me stand on the top step of the six steps to the bedroom level of our house and he would inspect my bells.

Translations

Verb

bells

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bell

Catalan

Adjective

bells

1. masculine plural of bell

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