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, Valencia) [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/
• Rhymes: -ɛlʊ, -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: be‧lo

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, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “belo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “belo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “belo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• 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)
   • 2014, Augusto Boal, Hamlet e o filho do padeiro: Memórias imaginadas, Editora Cosac Naify, →ISBN, page 217:

     Um poeta pode acordar no meio da noite e escrever belo poema — basta inspiração! Um pintor pintar um quadro em minutos ou anos, como sentir melhor. Mas artistas de artes coletivas não podem convocar espectadores às três da madrugada, alegando que só nesse momento sentem que baixou o santo.

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   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O romance de Adelina [Adelina’s romance]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 131:

     Sabes quem são os meus mestres do bom e do bello?

     Do you know who are my teachers of the good and the beautiful?

belo (Cyrillic spelling бело)

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of beo

Borrowed from Spanish velo, from Old Spanish velo, from Latin vēlum.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbelo/ [ˈbɛː.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: be‧lo

belo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜎᜓ)

1. veil; head covering

   Synonyms: kulubong, pandong

• “belo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “belo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• 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^[2], Pacific linguistics