beste
Basque
Adjective
beste
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
beste
- (deprecated template usage) Inflected form of best, the superlative of goed
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
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Adjective
beste
- inflection of gut:
Middle Dutch
Adjective
beste
- inflection of best:
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz (adjective), *batist (adverb).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Adjective
beste
Descendants
References
- “best (adj. (sup.))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.
Adverb
beste
Descendants
References
- “best (adv. (sup.))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.
Etymology 2
From Old French beste.
Noun
beste
- Alternative form of beeste
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.
Noun
beste f (plural bestes)
Descendants
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Verb
bēste
- inflection of beastit:
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
beste
- definite superlative degree of god
- definite superlative degree of bra
- definite singular/plural of best
Noun
beste n
- det beste - the best
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
beste
- definite superlative degree of god
- definite superlative degree of bra
- definite singular/plural of best
Derived terms
Old French
Etymology
Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).
Noun
beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)
Descendants
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- Norwegian Bokmål adjective superlative forms
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