beldad

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /belˈdad/ [bel̪ˈd̪að̞]
  • Rhymes: -ad
  • Syllabification: bel‧dad

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish beldad, from bello + -dad.[1]

Noun

beldad f (plural beldades) (literary)

  1. (uncountable) beauty
    Synonyms: belleza, hermosura
  2. (countable) belle
    Synonyms: belleza, preciosura

Etymology 2

Verb

beldad

  1. second-person plural imperative of beldar

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bello”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 562

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.