Noun: beleza
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | beleza |
| Plural f | belezas |
Sample Sentences
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Ah, a beleza que existe / A beleza que não é só minha / Que também passa sozinha (Ah, the beauty that exists / The beauty who is not just mine / Who also passes alone) [1962, “Garota de Ipanema”, Vinicius de Moraes (lyrics), Antônio Carlos Jobim (music):]
Nouns inflected like beleza
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan belleza or Italian bellezza, both from Vulgar Latin *bellitia, a noun based on Latin bellus (“pretty”). By surface analysis, belo + -eza. Compare Spanish belleza and Catalan bellesa. See: Italian Nouns '
bellezza', Latin Nouns '
bellus', Spanish Nouns '
belleza', Catalan Nouns '
bellesa'.
Verbs referencing "beleza"
Spanish Nouns
belleza, Galician Nouns
beleza, Catalan Nouns
bellesa.
Translations