Belissimo is that word?

Today, almost every one of us has heard or used the word "belissimo" in his speech. This is already common for native speakers of the Russian language. But do you know what it means? Where does this word come from in our native language? Where did you meet him? The answers to these questions can be found in our short article.

Where you can find this word

The lexical unit that interests you, is found in musical, theatrical, and advertising arts.

"Belissimo" is the name of the restaurant, where visitors are treated to dishes of Italian cuisine. Having tasted the aromatic and succulent meat in Italian, the restaurant guests shout: "Madonna mia! Belissimo! Perfetto! "It's easy to guess that they praise the mastery of the chef!

And now you ask: "Where does the word meet in music?". In the tunes of the 70-80-ies of the twentieth century, Italian singers sing songs about happiness in their songs. Adriano Celentano, Toto Cutugno and other stars of the Italian stage from the stage told us that "belissimo" is a word from Italy.

Fans of theatrical art will argue and prove that "belissimo" screams to the artists at the end of the performance. These exclamations are the best gratitude from the audience. So artists, opera singers and dancers understand that their performance was "on top". Indeed, in the theater of opera and ballet one can observe how the audience applaud and shout: "Bravo! Bravissimo! Belissimo! ".

Throughout the globe there are signs of restaurants, clubs, clothing stores and shoes, beauty salons with this word. Let's look at the Italian roots of the verbal unit.

Word of the word

Let us turn to the linguistic component of our article. As already mentioned above, indeed, "belissimo" is a word that came to Russian from Italian. On native land, it came from the word belle, which means "beautiful." But since in the word of interest we also have a suffix, then "belissimo" in translation from Italian means:

• beautiful;
• luxurious;
• Beautiful and so on.

Synonyms

We already know that "belissimo" is an adjective that indicates the degree of beauty. Therefore, it will be easy for us to choose synonyms for it. Very often in translation, it is replaced by adjectives "wonderful," "beautiful," "excellent," "magnificent," "stunning," "charming," "absolute," and so on.

Afterword

Our native language is unique and rich in borrowed words. Despite the fact that in our speech there are words from Latin, Ancient Greek, Turkic, French, German, we have seen that the Italian language also left its mark.