beltat

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bellitātem, based on Latin bellus (“beautiful”).

Noun

beltat f (oblique plural beltats, nominative singular beltat, nominative plural beltats)

  1. beauty
    • 1180s, Bertran de Born, Rassa, tant creis e mont'e poia, collected in The Poems of the Troubadour Bertran de Born, published 1986, page 97, lines 5–6:
      Qe·l vezers de sa beltat loia ¶ los pros a sos ops, cui que doia.
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Descendants
  • Occitan: beutat
  • → Italian: beltà
  • → Old Spanish: beltat
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