Esperanto · 26 October 2026
A word a day week
bela
BE-la · /ˈbela/ · adjective
- beautiful
Bela gathers a familiar Romance beauty root and gives it the perfectly regular Esperanto adjective ending -a.
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Where it came from
French / Italianbelle / bella
Esperantobela
The form compares closely with French belle and Italian bella, both ultimately related to Latin bellus.
- French belle
- Italian bella
- Latin bellus
Tiny sentence
La ĝardeno estas bela.
the garden be.PRS beautiful.ADJ
“The garden is beautiful.”
The circumflex in ĝ represents /d͡ʒ/; the rest is pronounced as written.
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Sources and cautions
Esperanto’s source selection is multilingual. This card shows a comparison set and avoids declaring one modern language the exclusive parent.