Belissimo - what's that word?

Today almost everyone of us have heard or used in his speech the word “Belissimo”. This is a common thing for native speakers of Russian. But do you know what it means? Where it is a word in our native language? Where you could meet? The answers to these questions you will find in our article.

Where you can meet the word

The Lexical unit that interests you found in the music, theatre, advertising art.

“Belissimo” – the name of the restaurant where visitors are treated to Italian cuisine. Tasted flavorful and juicy meat in the Italian restaurant guests shout: “Madonna MIA! Belissimo! Perfetto!” unsurprisingly, they praise the skill of the chef!

And now you ask: “But where music meets the word?”. In the melodies of the 70-80-ies of XX century Italian performers sing their songs of happiness. Adriano Celentano, Toto Cutugno and other Italian pop star from the stage told us that “Belissimo” – that's the word from Italy.

Theatrical art Lovers will argue and prove that “Belissimo” I shout to the artists in the end. These cries – the best appreciation from the audience. So, artists, Opera singers and dancers understand that their performance was “top”. Indeed, in the theater of Opera and ballet can be seen as the audience applauded and shouted: “Bravo! Bravissimo! Belissimo!”.

Around the globe there are signs of restaurants, clubs, shops of clothes and footwear, beauty salons with this word. Let's take a look at the Italian roots of verbal units.

A word about the Word

Let's Move on to the linguistic component of our article. As mentioned above, indeed, “Belissimo” – is the word which came to Russian language from Italian. On the native land it comes from the word belle which means "beautiful". But since in the word there is also a suffix of “Belissimo” in Italian means:

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• Perfect;
• Luxurious;
• Beautiful and so on.

Synonyms

We already know that “Belissimo” – is an adjective that denotes the degree of beauty. So we will be easy to pick up for him synonymous. Very often in translation it is replaced by the adjectives "wonderful", "wonderful", "excellent", "magnificent", "fabulous", "charming", "absolute" and so on.

Epilogue

Our native language is unique and rich in borrowed words. Despite the fact that in our language there are words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, French, German languages, we were convinced that the Italian language has also left its mark.