beauty
English
/ˈbjuːti/, /ˈbjuɾi/, /ˈbuːti/
noun
Definitions
- The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
- Someone who is beautiful.
- Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
- An excellent or egregious example of something.
- with the definite article The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
- (particle) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
- Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
- (obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
- (archaic) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bewty derived from Old French beauté derived from Latin *bellitās, bellus (beautiful, fair, fine, pretty).
Origin
Latin
bellus
Gloss
beautiful, fair, fine, pretty
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- K-beauty English
- antibeauty English
- beauteous English
- beauteously English
- beauteousness English
- beautician English
- beautied English
- beautiful English
- beautifulest English
- beautifuller English
- beautifully English
- beautifulness English
- beautiless English
- beautiness English
- beautisome English
- beautyberry English
- beautydom English
- beautyless English
- beautylessness English
- beautyness English
- berry English
- nonbeautiful English
- nonbeauty English
- unbeauteous English
- unbeautiful English
- unbeauty English
- *bellitia Latin
- *bellitus Latin
- *bellitās Latin
- *bellitātem Latin
- bellamanus Latin
- bellitātem, *bellitās, *bellitas Latin
- bellus Latin
- facio Latin
- Labello German
- bellezza Italian
- bello Italian
- beauty Dutch, Flemish
- bello Spanish, Castilian
- *dw-ene- Proto-Indo-European
- ビューティフル Japanese
- ビューティー Japanese
- beautevous Middle English
- bewteful Middle English
- bewty Middle English
- beaute Old French
- beauté Old French
- bel Old French
- bellezour Old French
- biau Old French
- biaus Old French
- biauté Old French
- bela Esperanto
- bell Catalan, Valencian
- byuti Cebuano
- bela Ido
- bel Old Portuguese
- bèll Occitan
- biel Friulian
- bel Old Occitan
- beddu Sicilian
- beło Venetian
- beauté xno
- bèllo Ligurian
- bial Dalmatian
- beâ Bourguignon
- biel Istriot
- *duenelos Old Latin
- bél Franco-Provençal