HOW TO PRONOUNCE
bella
/ˈbɛlə/
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What does bella mean?
proper noun
- A female given name from Italian.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɛlə/
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For however fanciful and fantastic the Isola Bella may be, and is, it still is beautiful.
“Et, quo ferre velint, permittere vulnera ventis Ensis habet vires; et gens quaecumque virorum est, Bella gerit gladiis.”
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Canoes sometimes descend from Villa Bella, in the interior province of Matto Grosso, but not so frequently as formerly, and I could hear of very few persons who had attempted of late years to ascend the river to that point.
“I quite deny it, Bella. She might if no lifelong penalty attached to it for the man, or, in his default, for herself; if the weakness of the moment could end with the moment, or even with the year. But when effects stretch so far she should not go and do that which entraps a man if he is honest, or herself if he is otherwise.”