Words that come from Latin “balteus”

69 words across 24 languages descend from Latin balteus — including belt, Beltway, belter, baldric, beltway, shelterbelt, Belter, sunbelt.

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English (29)

Icelandic (4)

Italian (4)

Norwegian Bokmål (4)

Swedish (3)

Latin (3)

Norwegian Nynorsk (3)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Romanian (2)

French (1)

Hausa (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old High German (1)

Japanese (1)

Chuukese (1)

Korean (1)

Aromanian (1)

Faroese (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Old Norse (1)

Old English (1)

Middle English (1)

Old French (1)