beau
French
adj
Definitions
- handsome, fine, attractive
- nice
- fair (weather)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French beau inherited from Old French biau inherited from Latin 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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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Beauchamp English
- Beaumont English
- Bellefontaine English
- Lebeau English
- beau English
- beau joueur English
- beau sabreur English
- beaucatcher English
- beaucoup English
- beauish English
- beauship English
- boko English
- bookoo 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
- Beauchamp French
- Beaumont French
- Beauregard French
- Bellefontaine French
- Lebeau French
- beaucoup French
- bellâtre French
- champ French
- coup French
- fontaine French
- le French
- mont French
- regard French
- bello Spanish, Castilian
- *dw-ene- Proto-Indo-European
- beau Old French
- beaute Old French
- bel Old French
- bellezour Old French
- biau Old French
- biau cop Old French
- biaus Old French
- bela Esperanto
- bell Catalan, Valencian
- bellament Catalan, Valencian
- bellesa Catalan, Valencian
- bellíssim Catalan, Valencian
- bela Ido
- biau Norman
- bieau Norman
- beau Middle French
- bel Old Portuguese
- bèll Occitan
- biel Friulian
- bel Old Occitan
- beddu Sicilian
- beło Venetian
- bèllo Ligurian
- bial Dalmatian
- boukou Mauritian Creole
- bea Walloon
- beâ Bourguignon
- biel Istriot
- *duenelos Old Latin
- boucou Louisiana Creole French
- bél Franco-Provençal
- bieu Picard
- boku Nigerian Pidgin