bellus

– An old place, full of Dutch women, in "bellus top" bonnets, selling vegetables, in long, open markets.

Hospital Sketches 1863

I know a man who always calls them "bellus," which is, I believe, the professional pronunciation.

If I May 1919

I stayed there sicks years; from sicks, that is to say, till my twelth year, during three years of witch I distinguished myself not a little in the musicle way, for I bloo the bellus of the church horgin, and very fine tunes we played too.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

Its affectionate overtones are said to explain why bellus (and not pulcher) was adopted in the Romance languages, where it survived either alone or jointly with formosus.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

In English the term beauty goes back to the French beauté, which in turn is derived from a conjectured vulgar Latin bellitatem, formed after the adjective bellus, which neither originally nor properly desig - nated something beautiful; pulcher and formosus had this function.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

In the same vein, bellum “war” was derived from bellus

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

However, the reader may have failed to note this famous "causus bellus" or forgotten it.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

Quid me oportet facere, ubi tu talis vir falsum autumas? fui ego bellus, lepidus. bonus vir numquam, neque frugi bonae, neque ero umquam, ne erres: spem ponas me bonae frugi fore.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Censebam me effugisse a vita marituma, ne navigarem tandem hoc aetatis senex; id mi haud, utrum velim, licere intellego: ita bellus hospes fecit Archidemides. ubi nunc est ergo meus Mnesilochus filius?

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Euax, nimis bellus atque ut esse maxume optabam locus.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919