biau
Old French
adj
Definitions
- graceful, elegant, courteous
- noble
- (as a term of address) good, as in, my good sir, my good lady
- handsome; beautiful
Etymology
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
- *bellitia Latin
- *bellitus Latin
- *bellitās Latin
- *bellitātem Latin
- bellamanus Latin
- bellitātem, *bellitās, *bellitas Latin
- bellus Latin
- facio Latin
- Labello German
- bellezza Italian
- bello Italian
- beau French
- bello Spanish, Castilian
- *dw-ene- Proto-Indo-European
- beau Old French
- beaute Old French
- bel Old French
- bellezour Old French
- biaus Old French
- bela Esperanto
- bell 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
- bea Walloon
- beâ Bourguignon
- biel Istriot
- *duenelos Old Latin
- bél Franco-Provençal
- bieu Picard