The story
- Latin · derived fromfacio“make”
- Latin · derived frombellus“beautiful, fine”
- Old French · derived frombeaute“beauty”
- Middle English · inherited frombeutifien
- English todaybeautify
From Middle English beutifien, from Old French beaute (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fine”), + -ify, from Latin facio (“make”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchbeaute all →
beauty
Latinbellus all →
beautybeaubaublebeldame
Latinfacio all →
featureidentifymalfeasor
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.