biauté

Norman

Etymology

From Old French biauté, from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjaʊ.te/

Noun

biauté f (plural biautés)

1. beauty

Old French

Alternative forms

• bealté, belté, beauté

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bellitātem.

Noun

biauté oblique singular, f (oblique plural biautez, nominative singular biauté, nominative plural biautez)

1. beauty (chiefly visual)

Descendants

• Bourguignon: beâtai
• Middle French: beaulté
  • French: beauté
• Norman: bieauté, biauté
• Picard: bieutè (Somme), beltè (Amiens), biauté (Artois)
• → Middle English: beaute, bewte, beuaute, bewty, bealte, bewete, beute, beautee, bewtee
  • English: beauty
  • Scots: beauty