Word Origin Summary

Bella is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Belle Fourche

  English · derived from

• Belle

  Cebuano · derived from

• bèl

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• 벨뷰

  Korean · borrowed from

• belle sabreuse

  English · borrowed from

• 表爾威

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• bèl

  Louisiana Creole French · inherited from

• 貝爾維尤

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root