bellezour

 

Roger Berger suggests an unattested Latin masculine/feminine accusative *bellātiōrem, comparative of an equally unattested *bellātus (“too beautiful”, though note an attestation of belliātus in Plautus), derived from Latin bellus (“beautiful”). Compare Silver Latin bonātus (“too good, meek”) (attested in Petronius) and its derived neuter comparative *bonātius attested as Old French bonace (“too good, meek”), modern French bonasse, from Latin bonus (“good”), and also Late Latin malātus (“fairly bad”), from Latin malus (“bad”).

• IPA^(key): (9th. c.) /bɛləˈd͡zou̯r/^[1]

bellezour m or f

1. superlative degree of bel (most beautiful)
   • 881 CE, Anonymous, Sequence of Saint Eulalia :

     Bel auret corps bellezour anima.

     She had a beautiful body and a most beautiful soul

• Berger, Roger (2004) Brasseur, Annette, editor, Buona Pulcella Fut Eulalia, volume 233, Librairie Droz, →ISBN, pages 139-140
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (belisor)
• Porter, L. C. 1960. The "Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie": Phonology and Graphemics. Studies in Philology 57. 587–596.