belo

Borrowed from Spanish velo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelo/, [ˈbe.l̪o]
• Hyphenation: be‧lo

bélo (Basahan spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. veil

   Synonym: sakbod

Borrowed from French vélo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːlo/

belo f (plural beloioù)

1. bicycle

• marc'h-houarn

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.lu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɛ.lo]

belo

1. first-person singular present indicative of belar

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbelo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: be‧lo

belo (uncountable, accusative belon)

1. beauty

   Synonym: beleco

   Antonym: malbelo

Borrowed from English bell.

• IPA^(key): /beːloː/

belo

1. work break

From Old Galician-Portuguese bel, bela; borrowed from Old Occitan bel, from Latin bellus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlʊ/

belo (feminine bela, masculine plural belos, feminine plural belas)

1. (literary) beautiful

   Synonyms: fermoso, guapo

   Son merecentes dun belo poema.

   They deserve a beautiful poem.

• “belo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “bel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “belo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “belo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “belo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: bè‧lo

Deverbal from belare (“to bleat”) +‎ -o.

belo m (plural beli)

1. (literary) bleat (cry of a sheep or a goat)

   Synonym: belato

• belare
• belato

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

belo

1. first-person singular present indicative of belare

• belo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Old Galician-Portuguese bel, from Latin bellus, from Proto-Indo-European *dw-ene-, adverbial form of *deu- (“to do, perform, revere, show favor”).

• Hyphenation: be‧lo

belo (feminine bela, masculine plural belos, feminine plural belas, comparable, comparative mais belo, superlative o mais belo or belíssimo)

1. beautiful; attractive (having beauty)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:belo.

belo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of beo

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.lo]

belo

1. pole, post

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

belo

1. to lick

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

From English bellow (horns signifying midday).

belo

1. noon

Possibly related to belu (“to lick”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.l̪o/

belo

1. the tongue

   Synonym: belubelu

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics