Etymology

Belém

Today it means: A civil parish of Lisbon, Portugal Full definition →

Portuguese Belém ← Old Galician-Portuguese Belen ← Latin Bēthlehemum
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The story

  1. Proto-Semitic*bayt-
  2. Biblical Hebrewבֵּית (bet)
  3. Biblical Hebrewלֶחֶם (lékhem)
  4. Biblical Hebrewבֵּית לֶחֶם (bêṯ leḥem)
  5. Ancient GreekΒηθλεέμ (Bēthleém)
  6. LatinBēthlehemum
  7. Old Galician-PortugueseBelen
  8. PortugueseBelém
  9. English todayBelém

Borrowed from Portuguese Belém. Doublet of Bethlehem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.