English → Latin
“beau” in Latin
The English word beau itself goes back to Latin bellus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
beau
homo elegans, or elegantior (one icho is recherche in dress, etc.: bellus homunculus (a neat, dapper little fellow): juvenis barba et coma nitidus; de capsula totus (Just as if he came out of a bandbox). Sen., Ep., 115, 2: trossulus (originally meant eques Romanus; toward the end of the republic it was usedas a nickname for a petit maitre. Vid: Ruhnken, Sen., Ep., 76, 1).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for beau?
- The usual Latin words for “beau” are ēlegāns, trossulus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.