"belette" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [Dutch]

Audio: Nl-belette.ogg
Head templates: {{head|nl|verb form}} belette
  1. inflection of beletten:
    singular past indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, past, singular Form of: beletten
    Sense id: en-belette-nl-verb--h~lddL4
  2. inflection of beletten:
    (dated or formal) singular past/present subjunctive
    Tags: dated, form-of, formal Form of: beletten
    Sense id: en-belette-nl-verb-~F4KjWVC Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 10 90 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95

Noun [French]

IPA: /bə.lɛt/ Audio: Fr-belette.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-belette.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-belette.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-belette.wav Forms: belettes [plural]
Etymology: From Old French belette. Derivable from belle (“pretty”) + -ette (diminutive ending). Compare Franco-Provençal belèta. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|fro|belette}} Old French belette, {{af|fr|beau<alt:belle><t:pretty>|-ette<pos:diminutive ending>}} belle (“pretty”) + -ette (diminutive ending), {{cog|frp|belèta}} Franco-Provençal belèta Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} belette f (plural belettes)
  1. weasel (specifically, the least weasel) Tags: feminine

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (a0f6d7f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.