bastir

See also: baştir

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [basˈtiɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

bastir (first-person singular present basteixo, first-person singular preterite bastí, past participle bastit)

1. to build; to construct

Derived terms

• bastidor
• bastiment

Further reading

• “bastir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bastir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bastir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bastir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese bastir, from Old French bastir (“to build”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bastijaną (“join, mend together with bast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /basˈtiɾ/

Verb

1. (archaic) to build
2. (archaic) to supply

Derived terms

• abastecer
• bastida
• bastidor
• bastimento

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bast”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG

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Middle French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French bastir.

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     D'iceulx fauldroit bastir les murailles en les arrangeant en bonne symmetrie d'architecture, & mettant les plus grans au premiers rancz, et puis en taluant à doz d'asne arrangeant les moyens & finablement les petitz.

     From this, we would have to build the walls with a good symmetrical architecture, putting the biggest ones at the bottom, and then by mounting the back of an ass, the middle-sized one and finally the smallest ones.

Descendants

• French: bâtir

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Occitan

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin bastiō (“to build, sew”), from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave, lace”), from Proto-Germanic *bastijaną (“join, mend together with bast”).

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct

Derived terms

• bastissement

Descendants

• Middle French: bastir
  • French: bâtir
    • Haitian Creole: bati
• Norman: baïr
• Picard: bâti
• Walloon: bati (Liégeois), bâti (Charleroi)
• → Middle English: basten
  • English: baste

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French bastir, variant of bâtir (“to build”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bas‧tir

Verb

1. to felt (a hat)
2. to pad, quilt

   Synonym: acolchoar

3. (archaic) to build

Derived terms

• bastidor