beltat
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- beutat
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *bellitātem, based on Latin bellus (“beautiful”).
Noun
beltat f (oblique plural beltats, nominative singular beltat, nominative plural beltats)
- beauty
- 1180s, Bertran de Born, Rassa, tant creis e mont'e poia, collected in The Poems of the Troubadour Bertran de Born, published 1986, lines 5–6, page 97:
- Qe·l vezers de sa beltat loia ¶ los pros a sos ops, cui que doia.
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Descendants
- Occitan: beutat
- → Old Italian: beltate, beltade
- Italian: beltà
- → Old Spanish: beltat