fairness

en-noun

fairness (countable and uncountable, plural fairnesses)

From Middle English fairness, fæȝernesse, from Old English fæġernes (“fairness; beauty; pleasantness”), equivalent to fair + -ness. Cognate with Old High German fagarnessi (“fairness”).

inh

Some questioned the fairness of the new laws.

The reason why fairness in taxation matters is institutionalized unfairness rots society from the inside, and the social order and economy eventually collapse.

2024 January 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Tax System Is an Unfair Mess: Here's How to Fix It:

The property of being fair or equitable.


wlite

i

English: lit (confluence with lit, from Old Norse litr)

Scots: lit (confluence with lit, from Old Norse litr)

From Old English wlite, from Proto-West Germanic *wliti, from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz.


beauty is in the eye of the beholder

He is referring to the relativity of "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" an idea that became popular in the 18th cent.

1642, Charles Sorel, La Maison des Jeux, page 57:

Different people have different views on what is beautiful; beauty is subjective.

الْجَمَالُ فِي عَيْنِ النَّاظِرِ

people have different ideas of what is beautiful

de schoonheid der vrijster ligt in 's vrijers oog

die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters

khūbsūrtī dekhne vālõ ke ā̃khõ mẽ hotī hai

खूबसूरती देखने वालों के आँखों में होती है

is geal leis an bhfiach dubh a ghearrcach féin

la bellezza sta negli occhi di chi guarda

아름다움은 그것을 보는 사람 눈에 달려있다

areumdaumeun geugeoseul boneun saram nune dallyeoitda

ايلوق بوروق د مات اورڠ تقکن سام د مات کيت

elok buruk di mata orang takkan sama di mata kita

nie to ładne, co ładne, ale to co się komu podoba


beauteous

en-adj

beauteous (comparative more beauteous, superlative most beauteous)

more beauteous (comparative)
most beauteous (superlative)

From Middle English beautevous, bewteose, beautuous, boyteous, beuteus, beuteowse, bewtyvows, equivalent to beauty + -ous and/or beauty + -eous.

VVhy didſt thou promiſe ſuch a beautious day,
 And make me trauaile forth without my cloake,
 To let bace cloudes ore-take me in my way,
 Hiding thy brau'ry in their rotten ſmoke.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is? O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17, column 2:

Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.

1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 246:


scraggly

scraggly (comparative scragglier, superlative scraggliest)

scragglier (comparative)
scraggliest (superlative)

As if from a verb *scraggle (in turn from scrag).

The sunburn of my face, what little of it could be seen through a scraggly growth of beard, had faded to a sickly yellow.

1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXXI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 280:

Faintly from the street scraggly children's voices singing a yule song. Miss Tomson going to the window.
"Hey come here Mr Smith look at this, isn't that sweet, group of urchins, they're singing."

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 24:

What he painted was scenes of the Old West, cowboys and Indians, cattle and horses. Pictures scraggly with sagebrush.

1980 November 24, John Skow, “In Arizona: A Million Dollar Sale of Cowboy Art”, in Time:


fæger

ang-adj

fæġer (comparative fæġerra, superlative fæġerost)

fæġer (canonical)
fæġerra (comparative)
fæġerost (superlative)
fæġer (masculine nominative singular)
fæġer (feminine nominative singular)
fæġer (neuter nominative singular)
fæġerne (accusative masculine singular)
fæġere (accusative feminine singular)
fæġer (accusative neuter singular)
fæġeres (genitive masculine singular)
fæġerre (feminine genitive singular)
fæġeres (genitive neuter singular)
fæġerum (dative masculine singular)
fæġerre (dative feminine singular)
fæġerum (dative neuter singular)
fæġere (instrumental masculine singular)
fæġerre (feminine instrumental singular)
fæġere (instrumental neuter singular)
fæġere (masculine nominative plural)
fæġera (feminine nominative plural)
fæġere (feminine nominative plural)
fæġer (neuter nominative plural)
fæġere (accusative masculine plural)
fæġera (accusative feminine plural)
fæġere (accusative feminine plural)
fæġer (accusative neuter plural)
fæġerra (genitive masculine plural)
fæġerra (feminine genitive plural)
fæġerra (genitive neuter plural)
fæġerum (dative masculine plural)
fæġerum (dative feminine plural)
fæġerum (dative neuter plural)
fæġerum (instrumental masculine plural)
fæġerum (feminine instrumental plural)
fæġerum (instrumental neuter plural)
fæġera (masculine nominative singular)
fæġere (feminine nominative singular)
fæġere (neuter nominative singular)
fæġeran (accusative masculine singular)
fæġeran (accusative feminine singular)
fæġere (accusative neuter singular)
fæġeran (genitive masculine singular)
fæġeran (feminine genitive singular)
fæġeran (genitive neuter singular)
fæġeran (dative masculine singular)
fæġeran (dative feminine singular)
fæġeran (dative neuter singular)
fæġeran (instrumental masculine singular)
fæġeran (feminine instrumental singular)
fæġeran (instrumental neuter singular)
fæġeran (masculine nominative plural)
fæġeran (feminine nominative plural)
fæġeran (neuter nominative plural)
fæġeran (accusative masculine plural)
fæġeran (accusative feminine plural)
fæġeran (accusative neuter plural)
fæġerra (genitive masculine plural)
fæġerena (genitive masculine plural)
fæġerra (feminine genitive plural)
fæġerena (feminine genitive plural)
fæġerra (genitive neuter plural)
fæġerena (genitive neuter plural)
fæġerum (dative masculine plural)
fæġerum (dative feminine plural)
fæġerum (dative neuter plural)
fæġerum (instrumental masculine plural)
fæġerum (feminine instrumental plural)
fæġerum (instrumental neuter plural)

desctree

Middle English: fayr, fager, fæȝer, feir, fayer
English: fair
Scots: fair, fare, fayr

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz.
Cognate with Old Saxon fagar, Old High German fagar, Old Norse fagr, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌲𐍂𐍃 (fagrs).


joli

fr-adj

joli (feminine jolie, masculine plural jolis, feminine plural jolies)

jolie (feminine)
jolis (masculine plural)
jolies (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French joly (“considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty”), from Old French joli, jolif (“pretty, smart, joyful, merry”), possibly from Old Norse jól (midwinter festival), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō (“Yule, Yule month, December”) (more at yule); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy).

inh+

Julie, fille jolie, un jour était allée
cueillir au cœur des blés la belle fleur des blés,
des bleuets pour s’en faire une couronne bleue,
se faire une couronne et se distraire un peu.

1980, Géza Képes, Béla Kàlmàn, Péter Domokos, Le pouvoir du chant : anthologie de la poésie populaire ouralienne:

Julie, a pretty girl, had gone one day
to pick among the wheat the beautiful flower of the cornfields,
cornflowers to make herself a blue wreath,
to make herself a wreath and amuse herself a little.


沉魚落雁

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (沈魚落雁 (chényúluòyàn)):
* → Japanese: 沈魚落雁(ちんぎょらくがん) (chingyorakugan)
* → Korean: 침어낙안(沈魚落雁) (chimeonagan)
* → Vietnamese: trầm ngư lạc nhạn (沉魚落雁), chim sa cá lặn (沉魚落雁)

ㄔㄣˊ ㄩˊ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄧㄢˋ

/ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵ y³⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛn⁵¹/

/t͡sʰɐm²¹ jyː²¹ lɔːk̚² ŋaːn²²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵ y³⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛn⁵¹/

/t͡sʰɐm²¹ jyː²¹ lɔːk̚² ŋaːn²²/

From Zhuangzi (in the chapter "Discussion on Making All Things Equal"):
:
沉魚／沉鱼 (chén yú) often refers to Xi Shi and 落雁 (lùo yàn) often refers to Wang Zhaojun.

Mao Qiang and Li Ji [courtesans and two of the Four Beauties] are what people consider beautiful, but if fish see them they will swim into the depths; if birds see them, they will fly away into the air; if deer see them, they will gallop away. Among these four, who knows what is rightly beautiful in the world?

Máoqiáng, lìjī, rén zhī suǒ měi yě, yú jiàn zhī shēn rù, niǎo jiàn zhī gāo fēi, mílù jiàn zhī jué zhòu. Sì zhě shú zhī tiānxià zhī zhèng sè zāi?

毛嬙、麗姬，人之所美也，魚見之深入，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。四者孰知天下之正色哉？

毛嫱、丽姬，人之所美也，鱼见之深入，鸟见之高飞，麋鹿见之决骤。四者孰知天下之正色哉？

(of women) extremely beautiful; drop-dead gorgeous


attractivity

en-noun

attractivity (countable and uncountable, plural attractivities)

1841, Zoé de Gatti de Gamond [authoress of French original; English translator unknown], The Phalanstery; or, Attractive Industry and Moral Harmony, introduction, page xxiii
This voice, this unity, is the true attractivity which is to redeem man.

The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.


svelta

eo-head

svelta (accusative singular sveltan, plural sveltaj, accusative plural sveltajn)

sveltan (accusative singular)
sveltaj (plural)
sveltajn (accusative plural)


beautifulness

en-noun

beautifulness (usually uncountable, plural beautifulnesses)


graciously

English: graciously

(rare, Late Middle English) In a good-looking or desiring way.


hübsch

de-adj

hübsch (strong nominative masculine singular hübscher, comparative hübscher, superlative am hübschesten)

hübscher (masculine nominative singular strong)
hübscher (comparative)
am hübschesten (superlative)
hübsch (masculine predicative singular)
hübsch (feminine predicative singular)
hübsch (neuter predicative singular)
hübsch (plural predicative)
hübscher (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
hübsche (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
hübsches (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
hübsche (nominative plural strong without-article)
hübschen (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
hübscher (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
hübschen (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
hübscher (genitive plural strong without-article)
hübschem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
hübscher (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
hübschem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
hübschen (dative plural strong without-article)
hübschen (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
hübsche (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
hübsches (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
hübsche (accusative plural strong without-article)
der hübsche (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die hübsche (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das hübsche (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die hübschen (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des hübschen (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hübschen (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des hübschen (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der hübschen (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem hübschen (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hübschen (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem hübschen (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den hübschen (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den hübschen (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die hübsche (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das hübsche (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die hübschen (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein hübscher (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine hübsche (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein hübsches (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
hübschen (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine hübschen (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines hübschen (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hübschen (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines hübschen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübschen (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner hübschen (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem hübschen (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hübschen (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem hübschen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübschen (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen hübschen (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen hübschen (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine hübsche (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein hübsches (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübschen (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine hübschen (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
hübscher (comparative masculine predicative singular)
hübscher (comparative feminine predicative singular)
hübscher (comparative neuter predicative singular)
hübscher (comparative plural predicative)
hübscherer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
hübschere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
hübscheres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
hübschere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
hübscheren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
hübscherer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
hübscheren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
hübscherer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
hübscherem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
hübscherer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
hübscherem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
hübscheren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
hübscheren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
hübschere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
hübscheres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
hübschere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der hübschere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die hübschere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das hübschere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die hübscheren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des hübscheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hübscheren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des hübscheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der hübscheren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem hübscheren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der hübscheren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem hübscheren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den hübscheren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den hübscheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die hübschere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das hübschere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die hübscheren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein hübscherer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine hübschere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein hübscheres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
hübscheren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine hübscheren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines hübscheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hübscheren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines hübscheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübscheren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner hübscheren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem hübscheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer hübscheren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem hübscheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübscheren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen hübscheren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen hübscheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine hübschere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein hübscheres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
hübscheren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine hübscheren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am hübschesten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am hübschesten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am hübschesten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am hübschesten (plural predicative superlative)
hübschester (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hübscheste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschestes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
hübscheste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
hübschesten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschester (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschesten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschester (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
hübschestem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschester (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschestem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschesten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
hübschesten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
hübscheste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
hübschestes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
hübscheste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der hübscheste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die hübscheste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das hübscheste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die hübschesten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des hübschesten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der hübschesten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des hübschesten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der hübschesten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem hübschesten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der hübschesten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem hübschesten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den hübschesten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den hübschesten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die hübscheste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das hübscheste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die hübschesten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein hübschester (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine hübscheste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein hübschestes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
hübschesten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine hübschesten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines hübschesten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer hübschesten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines hübschesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hübschesten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner hübschesten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem hübschesten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer hübschesten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem hübschesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hübschesten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen hübschesten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen hübschesten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine hübscheste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein hübschestes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
hübschesten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine hübschesten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh).
The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to modern höfisch (“courtly”). For the semantic and phonetic development of this complex compare also Dutch hoofs (“courtly”) and heus (“polite; genuine”), Ripuarian Central Franconian höösch (“careful, slow”).


佳麗

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ li⁵¹/

/kaːi̯⁵⁵ lɐi̯²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² le²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² le²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ le³³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ le³³/

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ li⁵¹/

/kaːi̯⁵⁵ lɐi̯²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² le²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² le²²/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ le³³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ le³³/


glowing

en-adj

glowing (comparative more glowing, superlative most glowing)

more glowing (comparative)
most glowing (superlative)

He received glowing references from his previous employers.

But beyond the quantitative imbalance, the researchers identified significant qualitative biases favoring Russia in the course descriptions. They looked for “superlatives” like “masterpiece,” “genius” and “great” used to describe Russian literature and culture. About 31% of Russian literature course descriptions contained such glowing language, compared to only 11% for non-Russian literature.

2023 December 29, Orysia Hrudka, “US academia still in thrall of “great Russia” myth”, in Euromaidan Press:


affreux

fr-adj

affreux (feminine affreuse, masculine plural affreux, feminine plural affreuses)

affreuse (feminine)
affreux (masculine plural)
affreuses (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: affreus

→ English: affreux

→ German: affrös

From affre (“great fear”) + -eux. See affres.


golden girl

In her day, Betty Grable was the golden girl of America.

A young woman who is beautiful in a wholesome and healthy way.


beldame

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-beldame.wav

From late (1400–1450) Middle English bel (“good”), from Old French bel (“beautiful”) + Latin bellus + dam (“mother”), Middle English dame.

Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity, for the soul of me.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.i:

[…] have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 25:

Suddenly the beldam shrieks as if she's been stuck with a dagger, long rasping insuck of breath: ‘Eeeeeeeee!’

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 6:

(now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.


richesse

desc

remodelled as a plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">rich</i>

English: riches (remodelled as a plural of rich); richesse

remodelled as a plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="sco">rich</i>

Scots: riches (remodelled as a plural of rich)

remodelled as a plural of <i class="Latn mention" lang="yol">reeche</i>

Yola: reeches (remodelled as a plural of reeche)

Borrowed from Old French richesce, richesse, from riche (“rich”). Some forms are reinterpreted as the plural of riche (“rich”).

(in the plural, religion) (Earthly or heavenly) riches.

Wealth, lucre, valuables:
(Earthly or heavenly) riches.


徐娘半老

ㄒㄩˊ ㄋㄧㄤˊ ㄅㄢˋ ㄌㄠˇ

сюйнянбаньлао

/ɕy³⁵ ni̯ɑŋ³⁵ pän⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ nœːŋ²¹ puːn³³ lou̯¹³/

/ɕy³⁵ ni̯ɑŋ³⁵ pän⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ nœːŋ²¹ puːn³³ lou̯¹³/


hermoso

es-adj

hermoso (feminine hermosa, masculine plural hermosos, feminine plural hermosas, superlative hermosísimo)

hermosa (feminine)
hermosos (masculine plural)
hermosas (feminine plural)
hermosísimo (superlative)

From Old Spanish fermoso, from Latin fōrmōsus.


formosus

la-adj

fōrmōsus (feminine fōrmōsa, neuter fōrmōsum, comparative fōrmōsior, superlative fōrmōsissimus, adverb fōrmōsē); first/second-declension adjective

fōrmōsus (canonical)
fōrmōsa (feminine)
fōrmōsum (neuter)
fōrmōsior (comparative)
fōrmōsissimus (superlative)
fōrmōsē (adverb)
fōrmōsus (masculine nominative singular)
fōrmōsa (feminine nominative singular)
fōrmōsum (neuter nominative singular)
fōrmōsī (masculine nominative plural)
fōrmōsae (feminine nominative plural)
fōrmōsa (neuter nominative plural)
fōrmōsī (genitive masculine singular)
fōrmōsae (feminine genitive singular)
fōrmōsī (genitive neuter singular)
fōrmōsōrum (genitive masculine plural)
fōrmōsārum (feminine genitive plural)
fōrmōsōrum (genitive neuter plural)
fōrmōsō (dative masculine singular)
fōrmōsae (dative feminine singular)
fōrmōsō (dative neuter singular)
fōrmōsīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
fōrmōsum (accusative masculine singular)
fōrmōsam (accusative feminine singular)
fōrmōsum (accusative neuter singular)
fōrmōsōs (accusative masculine plural)
fōrmōsās (accusative feminine plural)
fōrmōsa (accusative neuter plural)
fōrmōsō (ablative masculine singular)
fōrmōsā (ablative feminine singular)
fōrmōsō (ablative neuter singular)
fōrmōsīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
fōrmōse (masculine singular vocative)
fōrmōsa (feminine singular vocative)
fōrmōsum (neuter singular vocative)
fōrmōsī (masculine plural vocative)
fōrmōsae (feminine plural vocative)
fōrmōsa (neuter plural vocative)

Borrowed:

→ Asturian: formosu

→ English: formous

→ Middle French: formeux

French: formeux

→? Old Occitan: formos

→ Portuguese: formoso

desctree

→ Portuguese: Ilha Formosa
→ Dutch: Eilandt Formosa / Eylant Formosa / Eiland Formosa (partial calque)
→ French: Île Formose (partial calque)
→ German: Insel Formosa (partial calque)
→ Spanish: Ysla Hermosa / Isla Hermosa (obsolete) (semantic loan)
→ Spanish: Isla Formosa (partial calque)

Inherited:

Catalan: formós

Extremaduran: hermosu

Italian: formoso

desc

Old Galician-Portuguese: fermoso, fremoso

Galician: fermoso

Portuguese: formoso

Old Spanish: fermoso

Ladino: fermozo, ermozo

Spanish: hermoso

→ Sardinian: elmosu

→ Gascon: hermous

Romanian: frumos

Sicilian: furmusu

Venetan: formoso (medieval)

From fōrma (“shape, beauty”) + -ōsus (“full of”).


人才

/ʐən³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ t͡sʰɔːi̯²¹/

/ŋin¹¹ t͡sʰoi̯¹¹/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰai⁵⁵/

/ʐən³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/

/jɐn²¹ t͡sʰɔːi̯²¹/

/ŋin¹¹ t͡sʰoi̯¹¹/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sʰai⁵⁵/

/laŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sai²⁴/

/laŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sai²³/

/laŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sai¹³/

/laŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sai²⁴/

/ʐən³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/

/laŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sai²⁴/

/laŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sai²³/

/laŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sai¹³/

/laŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sai²⁴/

Lín cha-bó͘-kiáⁿ ê jîn-châi seⁿ-chò bē-bái.

恁查某囝的人才生做𣍐䆀。

恁查某囝的人才生做𫧃䆀。


aestheticism

en-noun

aestheticism (countable and uncountable, plural aestheticisms)

He went over his canvases with disgust and anger, unable to see virtue in any one of them. Even his sacred Oyster Girl went back on him. The creature of a vitiated æstheticism, he could only suppose that conceit had played an abominable trick on his eyesight.

1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 133:

Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.

A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.

esteticisme

doctrine which holds aesthetics as the highest ideal


uglify

en-verb

uglify (third-person singular simple present uglifies, present participle uglifying, simple past and past participle uglified)

uglifies (present singular third-person)
uglifying (participle present)
uglified (participle past)
uglified (past)

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From ugly + -fy. Sense 3 by analogy with prettify.

She uglifies every thing near her.

1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 345:

(transitive) To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.


美麗

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ li⁵¹/

/mei̯¹³ lɐi̯²²/

/mi²⁴⁻¹¹ li⁵⁵/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le²²/

/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ le⁴¹/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le²²/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le³³/

/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ le³³/

/mui⁵²⁻³⁵ li³⁵/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ li⁵¹/

/mei̯¹³ lɐi̯²²/

/mi²⁴⁻¹¹ li⁵⁵/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le²²/

/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ le⁴¹/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le²²/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ le³³/

/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ le³³/

/mui⁵²⁻³⁵ li³⁵/

美麗景色／美丽景色

她長得很美麗。

她长得很美丽。

法語是一門美麗的語言。

法语是一门美丽的语言。

If you ask me, the scenery in the countryside is more beautiful than that in the scenic spots.

Yào wǒ shuō a, xiāngxià měilì de tiányuán fēngguāng jiù bǐ fēngjǐngqū de hǎo.

要我說啊，鄉下美麗的田園風光就比風景區的好。

要我说啊，乡下美丽的田园风光就比风景区的好。


baby-faced

en-adj

baby-faced (comparative more baby-faced, superlative most baby-faced)

more baby-faced (comparative)
most baby-faced (superlative)

Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.

Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.


佳人

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (佳人):
* → Japanese: 佳(か)人(じん) (kajin)
* → Korean: 가인(佳人) (gain)
* → Vietnamese: giai nhân (佳人)

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/kaːi̯⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/

/kɛ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/

/t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/

/kaːi̯⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/

/ka⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/

/ka⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/

/kɛ⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/

(literary) good person (of upright character)


bé

head

bé f (genitive singular bé, nominative plural béithe)

bé (genitive singular)
béithe (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
bé (indefinite singular)
béithe (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhé (indefinite singular)
a bhéithe (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bhé (definite singular)
na béithe (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na bé (definite singular)
na mbéithe (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbé (definite singular)
don bhé (definite singular)
leis na béithe (definite plural)

From Old Irish bé, from Proto-Celtic *ben, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).


adorno

Borrowed from Spanish adorno (“adornment”).


聲色

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ sɤ⁵¹/

/sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

/siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪk̚³²/

/siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ sɤ⁵¹/

/sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

/siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siɪk̚³²/

/siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siɪk̚³²/


嫫母

/mu̯ɔ³⁵ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mu̯ɔ³⁵ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Originally, the name of the fourth concubine of the Yellow Emperor. She was known for being really ugly.


eyeful

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(sometimes ironic) A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.

We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.

2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272:

(informal) A brief period of sleep; forty winks.


eyeful

en-adj

eyeful (comparative more eyeful, superlative most eyeful)

more eyeful (comparative)
most eyeful (superlative)

With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]

Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.


lindo

es-adj

lindo (feminine linda, masculine plural lindos, feminine plural lindas, superlative lindísimo)

linda (feminine)
lindos (masculine plural)
lindas (feminine plural)
lindísimo (superlative)

→ Italian: lindo

From Old Spanish lindo, of uncertain origin, but probably from Latin legitimus (“lawful, proper”) through metathesis and assimilation: *lid(i)mo > *limdo > lindo. If so, a doublet of the learned borrowing legítimo. Corominas considers both lindo and its possible Portuguese cognate lídimo (“legitimate”) as semi-learned terms, but this is uncertain.
Some sources derive it from Latin limpidus (“clean”) instead, but this is less likely for both phonetic and semantic reasons. Old Spanish lindo originally meant “legitimate”, later “authentic, pure, good”, and eventually gave rise to the modern meaning. Moreover, Latin limpidus is already the source of Spanish limpio.


prettification

en-noun

prettification (countable and uncountable, plural prettifications)

(colloquial) The act of making someone or something pretty.


attirant

fr-adj

attirant (feminine attirante, masculine plural attirants, feminine plural attirantes)

attirante (feminine)
attirants (masculine plural)
attirantes (feminine plural)

Des psychologues ont essayé d’analyser quels traits physiques étaient considérés comme attirants.

Psychologists attempted to analyze which physical traits were considered attractive.


clean up

en-verb

clean up (third-person singular simple present cleans up, present participle cleaning up, simple past and past participle cleaned up)

cleans up (present singular third-person)
cleaning up (participle present)
cleaned up (participle past)
cleaned up (past)

He sure cleans up nice.

(intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.


gloriously

English: gloriously

(Late Middle English) In an attractive or pleasing way; in a way that displays beauty.


prettily

en-adv

prettily (comparative more prettily, superlative most prettily)

more prettily (comparative)
most prettily (superlative)

From Middle English pratily, prately, pratyly, pratylych; equivalent to pretty + -ly.

And thus they were all begging for pancakes, the one more prettily than the other, because they were so hungry, and such good little children.

1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “The Pancake”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 62:

St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right.

1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:

The air was clear and scented, the breeze flitted lightly through the tall grass around his cave, the birds were chirruping at each other, the butterflies were flitting about prettily, and the whole of nature seemed to be conspiring to be as pleasant as it possibly could.

1982 August, Douglas Adams, chapter 2, in Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 12:


piękny

pl-adj

piękny (comparative piękniejszy, superlative najpiękniejszy, derived adverb pięknie)

piękniejszy (comparative)
najpiękniejszy (superlative)
piękny (masculine nominative singular)
piękna (feminine nominative singular)
piękne (neuter nominative singular)
piękni (nominative plural virile)
piękne (nominative plural)
pięknego (genitive masculine singular)
pięknej (feminine genitive singular)
pięknego (genitive neuter singular)
pięknych (genitive plural)
pięknych (genitive plural virile)
pięknemu (dative masculine singular)
pięknej (dative feminine singular)
pięknemu (dative neuter singular)
pięknym (dative plural)
pięknym (dative plural virile)
pięknego (accusative animate masculine singular)
piękny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
piękną (accusative feminine singular)
piękne (accusative neuter singular)
pięknych (accusative plural virile)
piękne (accusative plural)
pięknym (instrumental masculine singular)
piękną (feminine instrumental singular)
pięknym (instrumental neuter singular)
pięknymi (instrumental plural)
pięknymi (instrumental plural virile)
pięknym (locative masculine singular)
pięknej (feminine locative singular)
pięknym (locative neuter singular)
pięknych (locative plural)
pięknych (locative plural virile)

Była piękną kobietą.

beautiful (attractive and possessing beauty)


facies

la-noun

faciēs f (genitive faciēī); fifth declension

faciēs (canonical feminine)
faciēī (genitive)
faciēs (nominative singular)
faciēs (nominative plural)
faciēī (genitive singular)
faciērum (genitive plural)
faciēī (dative singular)
faciēbus (dative plural)
faciem (accusative singular)
faciēs (accusative plural)
faciē (ablative singular)
faciēbus (ablative plural)
faciēs (singular vocative)
faciēs (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Sicilian: facci

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: fache, facci (Campidanese, still meaning "face")

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: faç

Old Occitan: fatz

Ibero-Romance

Extremaduran: hazi

Mozarabic: ڢاج (fāja)

Old Galician-Portuguese: façe, faz

Galician: face

Portuguese: face

Old Spanish: faz
Spanish: haz, faz

Borrowings:

→ English: facies

→ French: faciès

→ Portuguese: fácies

→ Spanish: facies

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: fatsã

Romanian: față

Italo-Romance:

Italian: faccia (see there for further descendants)

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Lombard: fassa

Piedmontese: fassa, fàssia

Romagnol: fàza

Venetan: fazza, faça, fasa (see there for further descendants)

Friulian: face

Romansch: fatscha

Gallo-Romance:

Occitan: fàcia

desctree

Old French: face, fache (northern)
Middle French: face
French: face
Norman: fache, fach (Sark)
→ Middle English: face (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ Albanian: faqe

From Proto-Italic *fakjēs of disputed origin. It may be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, set, put, impose, place”); faciēs may be to faciō as speciēs is to speciō, and may literally mean "imposed form". However, others class it with facētus and fax.

etymon

faciēs

der

(figuratively, Classical Latin) external form, look, condition, appearance

(in particular) external appearance as opposed to reality; pretence, pretext

(transferred sense, poetic) look, sight, aspect

in faciem + (genitive)


sex appeal

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He may be as thick as a plank, but he sure has some sex appeal.

But when she goes on to remark that “it is the height of folly to say that woman, who has been taught by the uncounted ages that her strongest hold on man is because of her sex, can throw off or disregard the knowledge that her sex appeal is the strongest weapon she has” then I am appalled at the extreme illogic of the lady!

1913 May 15, Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, quoting Josephine Jewell Dodge, “A Question Not of Sex Appeal; But of Prevailing Mode.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Samara: She impresses with sophistication and sex appeal. Then she strikes. The hunt interests her as much as the conquest.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi):


hermosura

Inherited from Old Spanish fermosura, from fermoso (“beautiful”). By surface analysis, hermoso (“beautiful”) + -ura.

surf

beauty (the quality of being attractive or pleasing)


好看

/xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰän⁵¹/

/xɔ⁵¹ kʰæ̃⁴⁴/

/hou̯³⁵ hɔːn³³/

/ho³³⁻⁵⁵ ^((kʰ-))ɑŋ²¹³/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰuã⁴¹/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã¹¹/

/hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰaŋ²¹³/

/hɔ³³ kʰø⁴⁴/

/xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰän⁵¹/

/xɔ⁵¹ kʰæ̃⁴⁴/

/hou̯³⁵ hɔːn³³/

/ho³³⁻⁵⁵ ^((kʰ-))ɑŋ²¹³/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰuã⁴¹/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã¹¹/

/hɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kʰuã²¹/

/ho⁵²⁻³⁵ kʰaŋ²¹³/

/hɔ³³ kʰø⁴⁴/


easy on the eyes

en-adj

easy on the eyes (comparative more easy on the eyes, superlative most easy on the eyes)

more easy on the eyes (comparative)
most easy on the eyes (superlative)

Truly was this maiden, as his Chamberlain had said, noticeably easy on the eyes. Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Coming of Gowf”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert:

Those lovers, played by Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz, are certainly easy on the eyes, but their romantic chemistry is tentative at best.

1998 Jan. 23, Stephen Holden, "Ukrainian Patient: A Romance In the Rain" (film review of Swept from the Sea), New York Times (retrieved 2 Oct 2013)

(idiomatic) Physically attractive; beautiful.


elegans

la-adj

ēlegāns (genitive ēlegantis, comparative ēlegantior, superlative ēlegantissimus, adverb ēleganter); third-declension one-termination adjective

ēlegāns (canonical)
ēlegantis (genitive)
ēlegantior (comparative)
ēlegantissimus (superlative)
ēleganter (adverb)
ēlegāns (feminine masculine neuter nominative singular)
ēlegantēs (feminine masculine nominative plural)
ēlegantia (neuter nominative plural)
ēlegantis (feminine genitive masculine neuter singular)
ēlegantium (feminine genitive masculine neuter plural)
ēlegantī (dative feminine masculine neuter singular)
ēlegantibus (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
ēlegantem (accusative feminine masculine singular)
ēlegāns (accusative neuter singular)
ēlegantēs (accusative feminine masculine plural)
ēlegantia (accusative neuter plural)
ēlegantī (ablative feminine masculine neuter singular)
ēlegantibus (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
ēlegāns (feminine masculine neuter singular vocative)
ēlegantēs (feminine masculine plural vocative)
ēlegantia (neuter plural vocative)

→ Catalan: elegant

→ English: elegant

→ French: élégant

→ Galician: elegante

→ German: elegant

→ Italian: elegante

→ Occitan: elegant

→ Portuguese: elegante

→ Spanish: elegante

→ Swedish: elegans

→ Romanian: elegant

[ˈeːɫ̪ɛɡä̃ːs̠]

The present participle of an unattested verb *ēlegāre ("to choose considerately"), probably from an intermediate noun *ēlegus ("chooser"), from ēligō (“to choose”) + -us. For a similar formation, see occupō.


frons

la-noun

frōns f (genitive frontis); third declension

frōns (canonical feminine)
frontis (genitive)
frōns (nominative singular)
frontēs (nominative plural)
frontis (genitive singular)
frontium (genitive plural)
frontī (dative singular)
frontibus (dative plural)
frontem (accusative singular)
frontēs (accusative plural)
frontīs (accusative plural)
fronte (ablative singular)
frontibus (ablative plural)
frōns (singular vocative)
frontēs (plural vocative)

Dalmatian: fruant

Eastern Romance:

desc

Aromanian: frãmti f, frãmte, frumti, frumte, frunti, frunte

Romanian: frunte f

Italian: fronte f

desctree

Old French: front m
French: front m (see there for further descendants)
Norman: front m
→ Dutch: front
→ Middle English: frount, ffront, ffrount, front, fronte, frounte, frountte, frownt, frownte, frunt, frunte
English: front (see there for further descendants)
Scots: front

Old Leonese:

Asturian: frente f

Old Occitan: front

Catalan: front m

Occitan: frònt m

Old Galician-Portuguese: fronte

Galician: fronte f

Portuguese: fronte f

Old Spanish: fruente f

Ladino:

Hebrew script: פ׳רינטי

Latin script: frente

Spanish: frente f (see there for further descendants)

Romagnol: frònta

Sicilian: frunti f

→ English: frons

→ Friulian: front

→ Romansch: frunt, frùnt, front

→ Sardinian: fronte, fronti, frunte

→ Spanish: frontis

→ Venetan: front

From Proto-Italic *fronts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrónts (compare Irish braine (“prow, edge”), Old Norse brandr (“sword blade”)), from *bʰren- (“to project; edge”).

… et maestam dictīs adgressa sorōrem,

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.476–477

… and [as Dido] approaches her sorrowful sister to talk, by her expression she hides her plan, and even shines with serene hope in her appearance.

cōnsilium voltū tegit, ac spem fronte serēnat ….

prīmā fronte

the outward appearance, external quality, look (as distinct from inward nature)


slovenliness

en-noun

slovenliness (countable and uncountable, plural slovenlinesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being slovenly.

(countable) The result or product of being slovenly.


braw

head

braw (comparative mair braw, superlative maist braw)

mair braw (comparative)
maist braw (superlative)

Alteration of brave. Compare Swedish bra (“good; fine”).

This man, so gallant and braw, would never be for her; doubtless the fine suit and the capering horse were for Joan o' the Croft's pleasure.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


hourglass figure

en-noun

hourglass figure (plural hourglass figures)

A human body shape resembling an hourglass, i.e. with a very narrow waist and wide bust and hips.

тънка талия

a human body shape resembling an hourglass


schoonheid

nl-noun

schoonheid f (plural schoonheden, diminutive schoonheidje n)

schoonheden (plural)
schoonheidje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: skoonheid

Negerhollands: skoonheit

From Middle Dutch schôonheit, from Old Dutch [Term?]. Equivalent to schoon (“beautiful”) + -heid (“-ness, -hood”).


birth control glasses

(plural only, US, military slang) The brown-framed prescription eyeglasses issued to new recruits in the U.S. military, and perceived as notoriously unattractive.


sightly

en-adj

sightly (comparative sightlier, superlative sightliest)

sightlier (comparative)
sightliest (superlative)

From Middle English sightlye, equivalent to sight + -ly. Cognate with German sichtlich (“visible”).

Many brave, sightly horses.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

Harry's sightly—yes, he's as sightly as the tallest pine of the mountains, and the Sarpent has named him accordingly; however, some fancy good looks, and some fancy good conduct, only.

1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:

'Your face -ain't sightly,' said Ole Pa.

Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing.


graven

graven (infinitive)
to graven (infinitive)
grave (infinitive)
grave (first-person present singular)
grof (first-person past singular)
graved (first-person past singular)
gravest (present second-person singular)
grove (past second-person singular)
grof (past second-person singular)
gravedest (past second-person singular)
graveth (present singular third-person)
grof (past singular third-person)
graved (past singular third-person)
grave (present singular subjunctive)
grove (past singular subjunctive)
graved (past singular subjunctive)
grave (imperative present singular)
graven (plural present)
grave (plural present)
groven (past plural)
grove (past plural)
graveden (past plural)
gravede (past plural)
graveth (imperative plural present)
grave (imperative plural present)
gravynge (participle present)
gravende (participle present)
graven (participle past)
grave (participle past)
graved (participle past)
ygraven (participle past)
ygrave (participle past)
ygraved (participle past)

English: grave (obsolete)

⇒ English: engrave

Scots: grave

From Old English grafan, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

To bury, especially to inhume or entomb.

To carve or engrave (with inscriptions or carvings)

To carve or adorn:
To sculpt; to carve with a chisel.

To carve or adorn:
To adorn with precious metal.


UMOC

(US university and university slang) Initialism of ugly man on campus.


clean-cut

clean-cut (comparative more clean-cut, superlative most clean-cut)

more clean-cut (comparative)
most clean-cut (superlative)

Apparently from the idea of being smoothly shaped and thus the opposite of “rough” or “coarse”.

I fell down / To my bended knees, / Saying, "I dig farmers, / Don't shoot me, please!" / He cocked his rifle / And began to shout, / "You're that travelin' salesman / That I have heard about." / I said, "No! No! No! / I'm a doctor and it's true, / I'm a clean-cut kid / And I been to college, too."

1964, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Motorpsycho Nitemare”, in Another Side of Bob Dylan:

Of the fifty or so people present, most were clean-cut men in their twenties or thirties. Dalio sat down near the front of the room.

2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

here’s something a little too perfect about Dan Stevens. Even when he’s not literally playing a Disney prince, he looks like one: poised, chiseled, giving off a clean-cut aura no matter his state of grooming.

2021 September 16, A. A. Dowd, “Dan Stevens as a dashing robot lover? That computes”, in AV Club:


beauty is only skin deep

First use appears c. 1809, although beauty is but skin-deep appears much earlier.

"Handsome those that handsome do say I; beauty is only skin deep; it is the principle of the heart I consider.

1809, Francis Lathom, London, Or, Truth Without Treason, A Novel, page 2:

And she graced the transition. Beauty is only skin-deep, but the nerves lie very near to the skin. Nerve—but just here will you oblige by perusing again the quotation with which this story begins?

1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:

Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep.

2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A person's character matters more than their appearance.

الجمال جمال الروح

a person's character is more important than their outward appearance

laksana bunga dadap, sungguh merah berbau tidak

más peaca bheith buí tá na mílte damanta

ní hí an bhreáthacht a bhruitheann na prátaí

美人というも皮一重

びじん と いう も かわ ひとえ

laksana buah dedap, sungguh merah berbau tidak

buah masak merah belum tentu manis rasanya


blafard

fr-adj

blafard (feminine blafarde, masculine plural blafards, feminine plural blafardes)

blafarde (feminine)
blafards (masculine plural)
blafardes (feminine plural)

From Middle High German bleichvar (“pale-coloured”), from bleich (“pale”) + var (“colour”) (compare German Farbe).

der

À travers les vitres, de chaque côté, on distinguait un soleil terne, blafard, semé de grandes taches noires, un peu plus lumineux en son centre.

1947, Boris Vian, L'écume des jours, Kindle edition:


morue

Haitian Creole: lanmori

From Old French morlue, derived from Latin morua (“cod”).


rìomhach

rìomhach (masculine nominative singular)
rìomhach (feminine nominative singular)
rìomhach (nominative plural)
rìomhaich (masculine singular vocative)
rìomhaich (feminine singular vocative)
rìomhach (plural vocative)
rìomhaich (genitive masculine singular)
rìomhaich (feminine genitive singular)
rìomhach (genitive plural)
rìomhach (dative masculine singular)
rìomhaich (dative feminine singular)
rìomhach (dative plural)


brèagha

brèagha (masculine nominative)
brèagha
bhrèagha

From Middle Irish bregda (“Bregian, fine”), from Brega (“Bregia, country around the Hill of Tara”), possibly from Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”). Cognate with Irish breá (archaic breagha, breaghdha). Possibly related to brìgh (“sense; strength; significance”).


cutely

en-adv

cutely (comparative more cutely, superlative most cutely)

more cutely (comparative)
most cutely (superlative)


cuteness

en-noun

cuteness (countable and uncountable, plural cutenesses)

The craving for cuteness is a psychological phenomenon that originally had the purpose of increasing the chances of a baby to survive […]

2007, Christine Locher, The Cult of Cuteness in Japanese Youth Culture, page 13:

The state of being cute (endearingly attractive).


laughter lines

Especially visible when smiling or laughing.

She wanted to hear his man's voice and see the laughter-lines come and go round his eyes.

Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.

A fat, orbicular and jolly soul / With laughter-lines upon each rosy jowl

1903, Ambrose Bierce, “The Saint and the Monk”, in Shapes of Clay:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see laughter, lines.


ropucha

pl-noun

ropucha f (male equivalent ropuch, diminutive ropuszka)

ropuch (masculine)
ropuszka (diminutive)
ropucha (nominative singular)
ropuchy (nominative plural)
ropuchy (genitive singular)
ropuch (genitive plural)
ropusze (dative singular)
ropuchom (dative plural)
ropuchę (accusative singular)
ropuchy (accusative plural)
ropuchą (instrumental singular)
ropuchami (instrumental plural)
ropusze (locative singular)
ropuchach (locative plural)
ropucho (singular vocative)
ropuchy (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: рапу́ха (rapúxa)

→ Czech: ropucha

→ Slovak: ropucha

→ Ukrainian: ропу́ха (ropúxa)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xorpuxa, *korpuxa, from *xorpa, *(s)korpa.

(derogatory) toad (ugly, bulky, older woman)


beautifier

Anthonie Becke […] was (by the report of Iohn Leland) either the very Author, or the first beautifier, of this the Princes house here at Eltham, also.

1576, William Lambarde, “Eltham”, in A Perambulation of Kent, London: Ralphe Newberie, page 384:

1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s Inn Journal, No. 24, 31 March, 1753, in Volume 1, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, p. 160,
To cultivate, therefore, and cherish the natural Affections, to direct them to worthy Objects, to keep them all in Harmony, so that not one of them shall grow out of due Proportion, or contract any whimsical Habit, is the best Preserver and Beautifier of the female Form, it gives that pleasing Turn of Mind which we call Sweetness of Temper, prevents Wrinkles, Distortion of the Features, and gives an agreeable Air to the whole Person […]

The sea is no beautifier, certainly; sailors do grow old betimes; I have often observed it; they soon lose the look of youth.

1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter III:

Meg had spent the time in working as well as waiting, growing womanly in character, wise in housewifery arts, and prettier than ever; for love is a great beautifier.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 1, in Little Women, volume 2, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, page 7:

A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.

embellisseur

someone or something which makes beautiful


uglification

en-noun

uglification (countable and uncountable, plural uglifications)

I go to put in readiness the feast
Kept to the honour of our goddess Famine,
Where, for more glory, let the ceremony
Take place of the uglification of the Queen.

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

There is an amusing side to this terrible threat to the countryside. So long as the uglification and slummification of England was confined to the industrial centres, few of the really best people troubled themselves.

1928 August, R. B. Suthers, “The Disappearance of Rural England”, in The Labour Magazine, volume 7, number 4, London: Trades Union Congress; Labour Party, page 172:

The process of being made ugly or uglified.

Entstellung

the process of being made ugly or uglified


feitur

head

feitur (comparative feitari, superlative feitastur)

feitari (comparative)
feitastur (superlative)
feitur (masculine nominative singular)
feit (feminine nominative singular)
feitt (neuter nominative singular)
feitan (accusative masculine singular)
feita (accusative feminine singular)
feitt (accusative neuter singular)
feitum (dative masculine singular)
feitri (dative feminine singular)
feitu (dative neuter singular)
feits (genitive masculine singular)
feitrar (feminine genitive singular)
feits (genitive neuter singular)
feitir (masculine nominative plural)
feitar (feminine nominative plural)
feit (neuter nominative plural)
feita (accusative masculine plural)
feitar (accusative feminine plural)
feit (accusative neuter plural)
feitum (dative masculine plural)
feitum (dative feminine plural)
feitum (dative neuter plural)
feitra (genitive masculine plural)
feitra (feminine genitive plural)
feitra (genitive neuter plural)
feiti (masculine nominative singular)
feita (feminine nominative singular)
feita (neuter nominative singular)
feita (accusative masculine singular)
feitu (accusative feminine singular)
feita (accusative neuter singular)
feita (dative masculine singular)
feitu (dative feminine singular)
feita (dative neuter singular)
feita (genitive masculine singular)
feitu (feminine genitive singular)
feita (genitive neuter singular)
feitu (masculine nominative plural)
feitu (feminine nominative plural)
feitu (neuter nominative plural)
feitu (accusative masculine plural)
feitu (accusative feminine plural)
feitu (accusative neuter plural)
feitu (dative masculine plural)
feitu (dative feminine plural)
feitu (dative neuter plural)
feitu (genitive masculine plural)
feitu (feminine genitive plural)
feitu (genitive neuter plural)
feitari (comparative masculine nominative singular)
feitari (comparative feminine nominative singular)
feitara (comparative neuter nominative singular)
feitari (accusative comparative masculine singular)
feitari (accusative comparative feminine singular)
feitara (accusative comparative neuter singular)
feitari (comparative dative masculine singular)
feitari (comparative dative feminine singular)
feitara (comparative dative neuter singular)
feitari (comparative genitive masculine singular)
feitari (comparative feminine genitive singular)
feitara (comparative genitive neuter singular)
feitari (comparative masculine nominative plural)
feitari (comparative feminine nominative plural)
feitari (comparative neuter nominative plural)
feitari (accusative comparative masculine plural)
feitari (accusative comparative feminine plural)
feitari (accusative comparative neuter plural)
feitari (comparative dative masculine plural)
feitari (comparative dative feminine plural)
feitari (comparative dative neuter plural)
feitari (comparative genitive masculine plural)
feitari (comparative feminine genitive plural)
feitari (comparative genitive neuter plural)
feitastur (masculine nominative singular superlative)
feitust (feminine nominative singular superlative)
feitast (neuter nominative singular superlative)
feitastan (accusative masculine singular superlative)
feitasta (accusative feminine singular superlative)
feitast (accusative neuter singular superlative)
feitustum (dative masculine singular superlative)
feitastri (dative feminine singular superlative)
feitustu (dative neuter singular superlative)
feitasts (genitive masculine singular superlative)
feitastrar (feminine genitive singular superlative)
feitasts (genitive neuter singular superlative)
feitastir (masculine nominative plural superlative)
feitastar (feminine nominative plural superlative)
feitust (neuter nominative plural superlative)
feitasta (accusative masculine plural superlative)
feitastar (accusative feminine plural superlative)
feitust (accusative neuter plural superlative)
feitustum (dative masculine plural superlative)
feitustum (dative feminine plural superlative)
feitustum (dative neuter plural superlative)
feitastra (genitive masculine plural superlative)
feitastra (feminine genitive plural superlative)
feitastra (genitive neuter plural superlative)
feitasti (masculine nominative singular superlative)
feitasta (feminine nominative singular superlative)
feitasta (neuter nominative singular superlative)
feitasta (accusative masculine singular superlative)
feitustu (accusative feminine singular superlative)
feitasta (accusative neuter singular superlative)
feitasta (dative masculine singular superlative)
feitustu (dative feminine singular superlative)
feitasta (dative neuter singular superlative)
feitasta (genitive masculine singular superlative)
feitustu (feminine genitive singular superlative)
feitasta (genitive neuter singular superlative)
feitustu (masculine nominative plural superlative)
feitustu (feminine nominative plural superlative)
feitustu (neuter nominative plural superlative)
feitustu (accusative masculine plural superlative)
feitustu (accusative feminine plural superlative)
feitustu (accusative neuter plural superlative)
feitustu (dative masculine plural superlative)
feitustu (dative feminine plural superlative)
feitustu (dative neuter plural superlative)
feitustu (genitive masculine plural superlative)
feitustu (feminine genitive plural superlative)
feitustu (genitive neuter plural superlative)

is-decl-adj-strong

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

positive (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (weak declension)

comparative

is-decl-adj-strong

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

superlative (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (weak declension)

From Old Norse feitr, from Proto-Germanic *faitaz.

Djöfull ertu feitur.


alikeness

en-noun

alikeness (countable and uncountable, plural alikenesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being alike.

(countable) The result or product of being alike.


prettiness

prettiness (countable and uncountable, plural prettinesses)


unappealing

en-adj

unappealing (comparative more unappealing, superlative most unappealing)

more unappealing (comparative)
most unappealing (superlative)


unappealingly

en-adv

unappealingly (comparative more unappealingly, superlative most unappealingly)

more unappealingly (comparative)
most unappealingly (superlative)


beauty school

A trade school which offers training in cosmetology.


gorgeousness

en-noun

gorgeousness (countable and uncountable, plural gorgeousnesses)

The characteristic or quality of being gorgeous


krasavice

krasavec (masculine)
krasavice (nominative singular)
krasavice (nominative plural)
krasavice (genitive singular)
krasavic (genitive plural)
krasavici (dative singular)
krasavicím (dative plural)
krasavici (accusative singular)
krasavice (accusative plural)
krasavice (singular vocative)
krasavice (plural vocative)
krasavici (locative singular)
krasavicích (locative plural)
krasavicí (instrumental singular)
krasavicemi (instrumental plural)


kráska

kráska (nominative singular)
krásky (nominative plural)
krásky (genitive singular)
krásek (genitive plural)
krásce (dative singular)
kráskám (dative plural)
krásku (accusative singular)
krásky (accusative plural)
krásko (singular vocative)
krásky (plural vocative)
krásce (locative singular)
kráskách (locative plural)
kráskou (instrumental singular)
kráskami (instrumental plural)


krása

krása (nominative singular)
krásy (nominative plural)
krásy (genitive singular)
krás (genitive plural)
kráse (dative singular)
krásám (dative plural)
krásu (accusative singular)
krásy (accusative plural)
kráso (singular vocative)
krásy (plural vocative)
kráse (locative singular)
krásách (locative plural)
krásou (instrumental singular)
krásami (instrumental plural)


krása

sk-noun

krása f (genitive singular krásy, nominative plural krásy, genitive plural krás, declension pattern of žena)

krásy (genitive singular)
krásy (nominative plural)
krás (genitive plural)
žena (declension-pattern-of)
krása (nominative singular)
krásy (nominative plural)
krásy (genitive singular)
krás (genitive plural)
kráse (dative singular)
krásam (dative plural)
krásu (accusative singular)
krásy (accusative plural)
kráse (locative singular)
krásach (locative plural)
krásou (instrumental singular)
krásami (instrumental plural)


beauty spot

From beauty (noun) + spot (noun). Some uses of sense 1 (“thing which is beautiful”) are figurative uses of sense 1.2 (“patch on the face to heighten beauty”).

kauneuspilkku

The Deformity, and Filthyneſs of Svvine, make them the Beauty-ſpot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.

1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Ends of Providence. And First, in this Life.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 3rd book, paragraph 49, page 102:

(archaic) A thing (especially an aspect of something) which is beautiful.

(cosmetics, historical) A patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty.


gorgeously

en-adv

gorgeously (comparative more gorgeously, superlative most gorgeously)

more gorgeously (comparative)
most gorgeously (superlative)

Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."

1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:

What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:


imponente

es-adj

imponente m or f (masculine and feminine plural imponentes)


maigrir

maigrir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
maigrissant (gerund participle present)
maigrissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
maigri (participle past)
maigri (participle past)
maigris (first-person indicative present singular)
maigris (first-person indicative present singular)
maigris (indicative present second-person singular)
maigris (indicative present second-person singular)
maigrit (indicative present singular third-person)
maigrit (indicative present singular third-person)
maigrissons (first-person indicative plural present)
maigrissons (first-person indicative plural present)
maigrissez (indicative plural present second-person)
maigrissez (indicative plural present second-person)
maigrissent (indicative plural present third-person)
maigrissent (indicative plural present third-person)
maigrissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
maigrissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
maigrissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
maigrissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
maigrissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
maigrissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
maigrissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
maigrissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
maigrissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
maigrissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
maigrissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
maigrissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
maigris (first-person historic indicative past singular)
maigris (first-person historic indicative past singular)
maigris (historic indicative past second-person singular)
maigris (historic indicative past second-person singular)
maigrit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
maigrit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
maigrîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
maigrîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
maigrîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
maigrîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
maigrirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
maigrirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
maigrirai (first-person future indicative singular)
maigrirai (first-person future indicative singular)
maigriras (future indicative second-person singular)
maigriras (future indicative second-person singular)
maigrira (future indicative singular third-person)
maigrira (future indicative singular third-person)
maigrirons (first-person future indicative plural)
maigrirons (first-person future indicative plural)
maigrirez (future indicative plural second-person)
maigrirez (future indicative plural second-person)
maigriront (future indicative plural third-person)
maigriront (future indicative plural third-person)
maigrirais (conditional first-person singular)
maigrirais (conditional first-person singular)
maigrirais (conditional second-person singular)
maigrirais (conditional second-person singular)
maigrirait (conditional singular third-person)
maigrirait (conditional singular third-person)
maigririons (conditional first-person plural)
maigririons (conditional first-person plural)
maigririez (conditional plural second-person)
maigririez (conditional plural second-person)
maigriraient (conditional plural third-person)
maigriraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
maigrisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
maigrisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
maigrisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
maigrisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
maigrisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
maigrisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
maigrissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
maigrissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
maigrissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
maigrissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
maigrissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
maigrissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
maigrisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
maigrisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
maigrisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
maigrisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
maigrît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
maigrît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
maigrissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
maigrissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
maigrissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
maigrissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
maigrissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
maigrissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
maigris (imperative second-person singular)
maigris (imperative second-person singular)
maigrissons (first-person imperative plural)
maigrissons (first-person imperative plural)
maigrissez (imperative plural second-person)
maigrissez (imperative plural second-person)


ljótur

head

ljótur (comparative ljótari, superlative ljótastur)

ljótari (comparative)
ljótastur (superlative)
ljótur (masculine nominative singular)
ljót (feminine nominative singular)
ljótt (neuter nominative singular)
ljótan (accusative masculine singular)
ljóta (accusative feminine singular)
ljótt (accusative neuter singular)
ljótum (dative masculine singular)
ljótri (dative feminine singular)
ljótu (dative neuter singular)
ljóts (genitive masculine singular)
ljótrar (feminine genitive singular)
ljóts (genitive neuter singular)
ljótir (masculine nominative plural)
ljótar (feminine nominative plural)
ljót (neuter nominative plural)
ljóta (accusative masculine plural)
ljótar (accusative feminine plural)
ljót (accusative neuter plural)
ljótum (dative masculine plural)
ljótum (dative feminine plural)
ljótum (dative neuter plural)
ljótra (genitive masculine plural)
ljótra (feminine genitive plural)
ljótra (genitive neuter plural)
ljóti (masculine nominative singular)
ljóta (feminine nominative singular)
ljóta (neuter nominative singular)
ljóta (accusative masculine singular)
ljótu (accusative feminine singular)
ljóta (accusative neuter singular)
ljóta (dative masculine singular)
ljótu (dative feminine singular)
ljóta (dative neuter singular)
ljóta (genitive masculine singular)
ljótu (feminine genitive singular)
ljóta (genitive neuter singular)
ljótu (masculine nominative plural)
ljótu (feminine nominative plural)
ljótu (neuter nominative plural)
ljótu (accusative masculine plural)
ljótu (accusative feminine plural)
ljótu (accusative neuter plural)
ljótu (dative masculine plural)
ljótu (dative feminine plural)
ljótu (dative neuter plural)
ljótu (genitive masculine plural)
ljótu (feminine genitive plural)
ljótu (genitive neuter plural)
ljótari (comparative masculine nominative singular)
ljótari (comparative feminine nominative singular)
ljótara (comparative neuter nominative singular)
ljótari (accusative comparative masculine singular)
ljótari (accusative comparative feminine singular)
ljótara (accusative comparative neuter singular)
ljótari (comparative dative masculine singular)
ljótari (comparative dative feminine singular)
ljótara (comparative dative neuter singular)
ljótari (comparative genitive masculine singular)
ljótari (comparative feminine genitive singular)
ljótara (comparative genitive neuter singular)
ljótari (comparative masculine nominative plural)
ljótari (comparative feminine nominative plural)
ljótari (comparative neuter nominative plural)
ljótari (accusative comparative masculine plural)
ljótari (accusative comparative feminine plural)
ljótari (accusative comparative neuter plural)
ljótari (comparative dative masculine plural)
ljótari (comparative dative feminine plural)
ljótari (comparative dative neuter plural)
ljótari (comparative genitive masculine plural)
ljótari (comparative feminine genitive plural)
ljótari (comparative genitive neuter plural)
ljótastur (masculine nominative singular superlative)
ljótust (feminine nominative singular superlative)
ljótast (neuter nominative singular superlative)
ljótastan (accusative masculine singular superlative)
ljótasta (accusative feminine singular superlative)
ljótast (accusative neuter singular superlative)
ljótustum (dative masculine singular superlative)
ljótastri (dative feminine singular superlative)
ljótustu (dative neuter singular superlative)
ljótasts (genitive masculine singular superlative)
ljótastrar (feminine genitive singular superlative)
ljótasts (genitive neuter singular superlative)
ljótastir (masculine nominative plural superlative)
ljótastar (feminine nominative plural superlative)
ljótust (neuter nominative plural superlative)
ljótasta (accusative masculine plural superlative)
ljótastar (accusative feminine plural superlative)
ljótust (accusative neuter plural superlative)
ljótustum (dative masculine plural superlative)
ljótustum (dative feminine plural superlative)
ljótustum (dative neuter plural superlative)
ljótastra (genitive masculine plural superlative)
ljótastra (feminine genitive plural superlative)
ljótastra (genitive neuter plural superlative)
ljótasti (masculine nominative singular superlative)
ljótasta (feminine nominative singular superlative)
ljótasta (neuter nominative singular superlative)
ljótasta (accusative masculine singular superlative)
ljótustu (accusative feminine singular superlative)
ljótasta (accusative neuter singular superlative)
ljótasta (dative masculine singular superlative)
ljótustu (dative feminine singular superlative)
ljótasta (dative neuter singular superlative)
ljótasta (genitive masculine singular superlative)
ljótustu (feminine genitive singular superlative)
ljótasta (genitive neuter singular superlative)
ljótustu (masculine nominative plural superlative)
ljótustu (feminine nominative plural superlative)
ljótustu (neuter nominative plural superlative)
ljótustu (accusative masculine plural superlative)
ljótustu (accusative feminine plural superlative)
ljótustu (accusative neuter plural superlative)
ljótustu (dative masculine plural superlative)
ljótustu (dative feminine plural superlative)
ljótustu (dative neuter plural superlative)
ljótustu (genitive masculine plural superlative)
ljótustu (feminine genitive plural superlative)
ljótustu (genitive neuter plural superlative)

is-decl-adj-strong

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

positive (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (weak declension)

comparative

is-decl-adj-strong

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

superlative (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (weak declension)

From Old Norse ljótr, from Proto-Germanic *leutaz.


butt-ugly

en-adj

butt-ugly (comparative more butt-ugly, superlative most butt-ugly)

more butt-ugly (comparative)
most butt-ugly (superlative)

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) Extremely ugly.


可愛い子ちゃん

可愛い子ちゃん (canonical)
kawaikochan (romanization)

可愛い (kawaii) + 子 (ko) + ちゃん (-chan, familiar suffix)


glorie

English: glory

Scots: glore

Borrowed from Old French glorie, gloire, borrowed itself from Latin glōria.

Distinction or recognition; the state of being considered glorious.

Acclamation, admiration, or glory; the state of being lauded or congratulated.

A person or (rarely) a thing worthy of glory or honour.

Beauty, marvel, overwhelming pleasure to one's senses.


macula

English: macula

Borrowed from Latin macula. Doublet of mayle.

(Late Middle English, rare) A lesion on the eye or skin.


lala

lala (nominative singular)
lale (nominative plural)
lali (genitive singular)
lal (genitive plural)
lali (dative singular)
lalom (dative plural)
lalę (accusative singular)
lale (accusative plural)
lalą (instrumental singular)
lalami (instrumental plural)
lali (locative singular)
lalach (locative plural)
lalo (singular vocative)
lalu (singular vocative)
lale (plural vocative)


hideously

en-adv

hideously (comparative more hideously, superlative most hideously)

more hideously (comparative)
most hideously (superlative)

From Middle English hidously; equivalent to hideous + -ly.


hideousness

en-noun

hideousness (countable and uncountable, plural hideousnesses)

From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes; equivalent to hideous + -ness.

The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness


precioso

es-adj

precioso (feminine preciosa, masculine plural preciosos, feminine plural preciosas, superlative preciosísimo)

preciosa (feminine)
preciosos (masculine plural)
preciosas (feminine plural)
preciosísimo (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin pretiōsus. By surface analysis, precio + -oso.


repulsiveness

en-noun

repulsiveness (countable and uncountable, plural repulsivenesses)

Out of the fact of this palatableness on the part of the one and repulsiveness on the part of the other has grown a singular condition in the southern states, where the trees as here once grew in equal profusion, side by side in the forests.

2011, Winthrop Packard, Forests and Fields Through the Year, page 343:


beauty mark

Synonym of beauty spot (“a natural mark on a person's skin, especially a freckle or mole on a woman's face; a patch or spot drawn or placed on the face in order to heighten beauty”)


radiante

es-adj

radiante m or f (masculine and feminine plural radiantes)

Borrowed from Latin radiantem. Cognate with English radiant.

beaming, glowing, bright, shining (appearance)


unattractively

en-adv

unattractively (comparative more unattractively, superlative most unattractively)

more unattractively (comparative)
most unattractively (superlative)


fallegur

head

fallegur (comparative fallegri, superlative fallegastur)

fallegri (comparative)
fallegastur (superlative)
fallegur (masculine nominative singular)
falleg (feminine nominative singular)
fallegt (neuter nominative singular)
fallegan (accusative masculine singular)
fallega (accusative feminine singular)
fallegt (accusative neuter singular)
fallegum (dative masculine singular)
fallegri (dative feminine singular)
fallegu (dative neuter singular)
fallegs (genitive masculine singular)
fallegrar (feminine genitive singular)
fallegs (genitive neuter singular)
fallegir (masculine nominative plural)
fallegar (feminine nominative plural)
falleg (neuter nominative plural)
fallega (accusative masculine plural)
fallegar (accusative feminine plural)
falleg (accusative neuter plural)
fallegum (dative masculine plural)
fallegum (dative feminine plural)
fallegum (dative neuter plural)
fallegra (genitive masculine plural)
fallegra (feminine genitive plural)
fallegra (genitive neuter plural)
fallegi (masculine nominative singular)
fallega (feminine nominative singular)
fallega (neuter nominative singular)
fallega (accusative masculine singular)
fallegu (accusative feminine singular)
fallega (accusative neuter singular)
fallega (dative masculine singular)
fallegu (dative feminine singular)
fallega (dative neuter singular)
fallega (genitive masculine singular)
fallegu (feminine genitive singular)
fallega (genitive neuter singular)
fallegu (masculine nominative plural)
fallegu (feminine nominative plural)
fallegu (neuter nominative plural)
fallegu (accusative masculine plural)
fallegu (accusative feminine plural)
fallegu (accusative neuter plural)
fallegu (dative masculine plural)
fallegu (dative feminine plural)
fallegu (dative neuter plural)
fallegu (genitive masculine plural)
fallegu (feminine genitive plural)
fallegu (genitive neuter plural)
fallegri (comparative masculine nominative singular)
fallegri (comparative feminine nominative singular)
fallegra (comparative neuter nominative singular)
fallegri (accusative comparative masculine singular)
fallegri (accusative comparative feminine singular)
fallegra (accusative comparative neuter singular)
fallegri (comparative dative masculine singular)
fallegri (comparative dative feminine singular)
fallegra (comparative dative neuter singular)
fallegri (comparative genitive masculine singular)
fallegri (comparative feminine genitive singular)
fallegra (comparative genitive neuter singular)
fallegri (comparative masculine nominative plural)
fallegri (comparative feminine nominative plural)
fallegri (comparative neuter nominative plural)
fallegri (accusative comparative masculine plural)
fallegri (accusative comparative feminine plural)
fallegri (accusative comparative neuter plural)
fallegri (comparative dative masculine plural)
fallegri (comparative dative feminine plural)
fallegri (comparative dative neuter plural)
fallegri (comparative genitive masculine plural)
fallegri (comparative feminine genitive plural)
fallegri (comparative genitive neuter plural)
fallegastur (masculine nominative singular superlative)
fallegust (feminine nominative singular superlative)
fallegast (neuter nominative singular superlative)
fallegastan (accusative masculine singular superlative)
fallegasta (accusative feminine singular superlative)
fallegast (accusative neuter singular superlative)
fallegustum (dative masculine singular superlative)
fallegastri (dative feminine singular superlative)
fallegustu (dative neuter singular superlative)
fallegasts (genitive masculine singular superlative)
fallegastrar (feminine genitive singular superlative)
fallegasts (genitive neuter singular superlative)
fallegastir (masculine nominative plural superlative)
fallegastar (feminine nominative plural superlative)
fallegust (neuter nominative plural superlative)
fallegasta (accusative masculine plural superlative)
fallegastar (accusative feminine plural superlative)
fallegust (accusative neuter plural superlative)
fallegustum (dative masculine plural superlative)
fallegustum (dative feminine plural superlative)
fallegustum (dative neuter plural superlative)
fallegastra (genitive masculine plural superlative)
fallegastra (feminine genitive plural superlative)
fallegastra (genitive neuter plural superlative)
fallegasti (masculine nominative singular superlative)
fallegasta (feminine nominative singular superlative)
fallegasta (neuter nominative singular superlative)
fallegasta (accusative masculine singular superlative)
fallegustu (accusative feminine singular superlative)
fallegasta (accusative neuter singular superlative)
fallegasta (dative masculine singular superlative)
fallegustu (dative feminine singular superlative)
fallegasta (dative neuter singular superlative)
fallegasta (genitive masculine singular superlative)
fallegustu (feminine genitive singular superlative)
fallegasta (genitive neuter singular superlative)
fallegustu (masculine nominative plural superlative)
fallegustu (feminine nominative plural superlative)
fallegustu (neuter nominative plural superlative)
fallegustu (accusative masculine plural superlative)
fallegustu (accusative feminine plural superlative)
fallegustu (accusative neuter plural superlative)
fallegustu (dative masculine plural superlative)
fallegustu (dative feminine plural superlative)
fallegustu (dative neuter plural superlative)
fallegustu (genitive masculine plural superlative)
fallegustu (feminine genitive plural superlative)
fallegustu (genitive neuter plural superlative)

is-decl-adj-strong

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

positive (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

positive (weak declension)

comparative

is-decl-adj-strong

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (strong declension)

is-decl-adj-weak

superlative (weak declension)

is-decl-adj-base

superlative (weak declension)

Attested since the 16th century. Compare Faroese falligur (“beautiful”). Probably derived from the verb falla, as German gefällig.


speciosus

la-adj

speciōsus (feminine speciōsa, neuter speciōsum, comparative speciōsior, superlative speciōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

speciōsus (canonical)
speciōsa (feminine)
speciōsum (neuter)
speciōsior (comparative)
speciōsissimus (superlative)
speciōsus (masculine nominative singular)
speciōsa (feminine nominative singular)
speciōsum (neuter nominative singular)
speciōsī (masculine nominative plural)
speciōsae (feminine nominative plural)
speciōsa (neuter nominative plural)
speciōsī (genitive masculine singular)
speciōsae (feminine genitive singular)
speciōsī (genitive neuter singular)
speciōsōrum (genitive masculine plural)
speciōsārum (feminine genitive plural)
speciōsōrum (genitive neuter plural)
speciōsō (dative masculine singular)
speciōsae (dative feminine singular)
speciōsō (dative neuter singular)
speciōsīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
speciōsum (accusative masculine singular)
speciōsam (accusative feminine singular)
speciōsum (accusative neuter singular)
speciōsōs (accusative masculine plural)
speciōsās (accusative feminine plural)
speciōsa (accusative neuter plural)
speciōsō (ablative masculine singular)
speciōsā (ablative feminine singular)
speciōsō (ablative neuter singular)
speciōsīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
speciōse (masculine singular vocative)
speciōsa (feminine singular vocative)
speciōsum (neuter singular vocative)
speciōsī (masculine plural vocative)
speciōsae (feminine plural vocative)
speciōsa (neuter plural vocative)

English: specious

French: spécieux

Italian: specioso, spezioso

Portuguese: especioso

Romanian: specios

Spanish: especioso

From speciēs (“appearance”) + -osus (“-ose, -ous, forming adjectives”).


形貌

/ɕiŋ³⁵ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/jɪŋ²¹ maːu̯²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² mãu²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² mãu⁴¹/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² mãu²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ mãu³³/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ mãu³³/

/ɕiŋ³⁵ mɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/jɪŋ²¹ maːu̯²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² mãu²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² mãu⁴¹/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² mãu²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ mãu³³/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ mãu³³/


相貌

chữ Hán form of tướng mạo (“facial features”).


ill-favored

en-adj

ill-favored (comparative more ill-favored, superlative most ill-favored)

more ill-favored (comparative)
most ill-favored (superlative)

And the ill fauoured and leane fleshed kine, did eate vp the seuen well fauoured and fat kine: So Pharaoh awoke.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 41:4:

Unattractive or offensive to the eye; ugly.


cobby

cobby (comparative cobbier, superlative cobbiest)

cobbier (comparative)
cobbiest (superlative)

So I may middle life enjoy, And jaunt about, my lovely toy; We'll spend our time so cobby, Now thus, be in our hobby, And so enjoy the fashion

1847, John Wright, “A Young Esquire's Arrival At Manhood”, in Anacreontic Poems, On Religious, Moral, and Pastorial Subjects, page 191:

Each one should be master now, of his own nose, But I pray you don't thus, take too strong a dose; -- A circumstance here allow me to mention, The subject of which is all good intention: The thing is so cobby, and just to the point, Of a nose, with the snuff, well nigh out of joint ---

1849, John Wright, “The Snuff subject”, in Second Work of Poems, Entitled A Gem for Every-one, page 71:

As it was, the two at head of the class were cobby in action.

1896, Farmer's Advocate and Home Magazine - Volume 31, page 156:

Give them the third task. If succeed, You'll make them very cobby.

2013, Милеева Марина Николаевна, Радость дарить знания: Английский язык со вкусом химии, page 156:


美人

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/

/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/

/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐəɻ³⁵/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/

/bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/

/bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zin¹³/

/bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zin²³/


美人

From Middle Chinese 美人 (MC mijX nyin, literally “beautiful (especially feminine) + person”). Compare modern Min Nan reading bí-jîn.
The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

美人傘

a large and deep umbrella that was fashionable in the late Meiji period

美人蕉: the Chinese-derived alternate for 姫芭蕉

a variety of plantain of family Musaceae

美人草: alternate name for 雛罌粟

Papaver rhoeas, a field poppy or corn poppy

美人というも皮一重: → beauty is only skin deep

even a beautiful person only has one skin

美人に年なし: → a beautiful person often looks young no matter their age

the end of [being] a beautiful person is turning into a monkey

美人の終わりは猿になる: → a beautiful woman becomes less beautiful as she ages

美人は言わねど隠れなし: “even if you don't say that someone is beautiful

there's no hiding it” → if someone is beautiful

美人薄命: → beauty often doesn't last

美人薄命 びじんはくめい

a beautiful person has a thin [i.e. short] life

モナ・リザといえばやはり美人ですね。

That Mona Lisa, she really is a beauty, isn't she.

(historical) in ancient China, the fifth of fourteen ranks for imperial ladies-in-waiting


美人

ja-noun

美(かおよ)人(びと) • (kaoyobito) ^(←かほよびと (kafoyobito)?)

美人 (canonical)
kaoyobito (romanization)
kafoyobito (romanization)
かほよびと (hiragana historical)

Compound of 顔 (kao, “face”) + 良 (yo, “good”, the stem of adjective 良い yoi, “good”) + 人 (hito, “person”). The hito changes to bito as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
The 美 kanji spelling for the kaoyo portion of the reading is an example of jukujikun.

compound

the stem of adjective <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">良い</i> yoi, “good”

(archaic, possibly obsolete) a beautiful woman, a beauty, a belle


homeliness

en-noun

homeliness (countable and uncountable, plural homelinesses)

From Middle English homlynesse, homelynesse, hamelynes, equivalent to homely + -ness.


nice-looking

en-adj

nice-looking (comparative more nice-looking or nicer-looking, superlative most nice-looking or nicest-looking)

more nice-looking (comparative)
nicer-looking (comparative)
most nice-looking (superlative)
nicest-looking (superlative)


形狀

/ɕiŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/

/jɪŋ²¹ t͡sɔːŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ⁴¹/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sɔŋ³³/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sɔŋ³³/

/heŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡suaŋ³⁵/

/ɕiŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/

/jɪŋ²¹ t͡sɔːŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔŋ⁴¹/

/hiɪŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sɔŋ²²/

/hiɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sɔŋ³³/

/hiɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sɔŋ³³/

/heŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡suaŋ³⁵/


barrique

→ German: Barrique

→ Italian: barrique

→ Malagasy: barika

→ Moore: barika

→ Moore: birkɛ

Borrowed from Old Occitan barrica, from Vulgar Latin *barrica (“barrel, cask”), from Gaulish *baril (“cask, barrel”); perhaps related to the source of Vulgar Latin *barra.


impresionante

es-adj

impresionante m or f (masculine and feminine plural impresionantes)

impresionantes (feminine masculine plural)

From impresionar + -ante. Cognate with Portuguese and Italian impressionante.

stunning, breathtaking, striking (physical appearance, scenery)


atractivo

atractivo (feminine atractiva, masculine plural atractivos, feminine plural atractivas)

atractiva (feminine)
atractivos (masculine plural)
atractivas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin attractīvus. Cognate with English attractive.


abajoue

(anatomy, zoology) a pouch in the cheek of some animals, usually used to carry food; a cheek pouch