The Great Theory of Beauty and Its Decline
Władysław Tatarkiewicz
What is called beautiful in modern English, the Greeks termed kalon and Romans pulchrum. The Latin word remained use throughout ancient medieval times, disappearing during Renaissance, however, when it was supplanted by a new bellum. This term had rather singular derivation: from bonum via diminutive bonellum, which abbreviated to At outset restricted its application women children; later came designate beauty of all kinds, completely eliminating earlier No language has adopted derivative pulchrum, though many have taken over bellum some form or other: Italians Spanish, bello; French, beau; beautiful. Other European languages possess equivalents indigenous German schon; Russian, krassivyj; Polish, piekny. Ancient alike at least two words same provenance serve as noun adjective: kallos kalos, pulchritudo pulcher,
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