bellesa
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to bell + -esa, possibly from Vulgar Latin *bellitia, from Latin bellus. Compare Italian bellezza, Portuguese beleza, Occitan belesa, and Spanish belleza.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [bəˈʎɛ.zə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [bəˈʎə.zə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [beˈʎe.za]
- Homophone: vellesa
Noun
[edit]bellesa f (plural belleses)
Further reading
[edit]- “bellesa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “bellesa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bellesa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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- Catalan terms suffixed with -esa
- Catalan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with homophones
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns