Etymology

Belmont

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Today it means: A surname from Anglo-Norman. Full definition →

French bel ← Italian bel
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The story

  1. Italian · borrowed frombel
  2. French · borrowed frombel“beautiful”
  3. English todayBelmont

From either French bel (“beautiful”) + mont (“mountain, mount”), or else Italian bel (a clipped form of bello (“beautiful”) + monte (“mountain”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.