bello

/ˈbeʝo/ · A2 · adj

beautiful, fair

🌹 bello = belle: same Latin bellus as Belle, the Beauty of Beauty and the Beast

From Latin bellus (pretty, fine), the root of French belle/beau and English belle and embellish. To embellish is to make something bello. Sound check: the ll is a y-sound, so say BEH-yo.

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