Adjective: beauty
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more beauty |
| Superlative | most beauty |
Sample Sentences
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He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
Adjectives inflected like beauty
beauty,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Italic *dwenos
4. Old Latin duenos
5. Old Latin *duenelos
6. Latin bellus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ts
9. Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
10. Proto-Italic *-tāts
11. Latin -itātem
12. Vulgar Latin *bellitātem
13. Anglo-Norman biautébor.
14. Middle English beaute
15. English beauty
16. From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness. See: Latin Adjectives '
bellus'.