bello

From Italian bello (“man; fella”). Doublet of beau.

bello (plural bellos)

1. A young man; sweetheart.

• Bollé, Lobel

From Latin bellum.

bello

1. war

• guerra

Inherited from Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl.lo/

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• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: bèl‧lo

bello (see below for inflection, superlative bellissimo, augmentative bellòccio or bellóne or bellóna f, endearing bellùccio, diminutive-endearing bellìno)

1. nice, fair, fine, pleasant; beautiful (of the weather, etc.)

   Che bello! ― How nice!

   una bella giornata ― a beautiful day

2. good-looking, handsome; beautiful (of a person)
3. considerable (quantity)

   Synonyms: grande, grosso, forte

   una bella somma ― a considerable amount

4. used to emphasize the size, quantity, degree, or extent

   Dammi una fetta bella spessa! ― Give me a nice thick slice!

5. good

   Synonym: buono

   un bel lavoro ― a good job

• abbellire

bello m (invariable)

1. beauty

   il bello nell’arte ― beauty in art

2. (weather) fair-weather

   Synonym: sereno

   Domani riprenderà il bello (i.e. bel tempo)? ― Will tomorrow be back the good weather?

3. (informal) man, fella

   Dai, andiamo, bello! ― C'mon, let's go, fella!

   Allora, bello, da dove è che vieni? ― So, man, where do you come from?

• bolle

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.loː/, [ˈbɛlːʲoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.lo/, [ˈbɛlːo]

From bellum (“war”) +‎ -ō.

bellō (present infinitive bellāre, perfect active bellāvī, supine bellātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to wage or carry out war, fight in war, war
2. (by extension) to fight, contend

   Synonyms: lūctor, repugnō, pugnō, contendō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, serō, dēcertō

• bellor
• dēbellō
• rebellō

• Asturian: embellar

bellō n

1. dative/ablative singular of bellum (“war”)

bellō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of bellus

• “bello”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bello”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bello in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to charge some one with the conduct of a war: praeficere aliquem bello gerendo
    
  • (ambiguous) to interfere in a war: bello se interponere (Liv. 35. 48)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be involved in a war: bello implicari
    
  • (ambiguous) everywhere the torch of war is flaming: omnia bello flagrant or ardent (Fam. 4. 1. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to harass with war: bello persequi aliquem, lacessere
    

bello (feminine bella, masculine plural bellos, feminine plural bellas)

1. Obsolete spelling of belo

Inherited from Old Spanish bello, in turn a borrowing from Old Occitan bel, bell, from Latin bellus. According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in the early 13th century, but not in the Poem of the Cid nor pre-literary Castilian. Part of the evidence for it being a borrowing is the lack of diphthongization, cf. Old Spanish castiello, amariello. The native Old Spanish terms were bellido and fermoso.

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• Syllabification: be‧llo
• Homophone: vello

bello (feminine bella, masculine plural bellos, feminine plural bellas, superlative bellísimo)

1. beautiful, fair
2. lovely (wonderful)

• “bello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bello”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 562-3