bestia

See also: Bestia, bèstia, and bestią

Catalan

Etymology

bes- +‎ tia

Noun

bestia f (plural besties)

1. great-aunt

See also

• besoncle

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bēstia. Cognate to biscia, which is not borrowed but inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbestja/

Noun

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. beast

Derived terms

• bestia da soma

Related terms

• bestiale
• bestiario
• biscia

Anagrams

• basite
• beasti

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Latin

Etymology

The origin is unknown. A Proto-Indo-European preform *dʰwēs-tiā has been proposed, from the root dʰwēs- (“to breathe”) (compare Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 (dius) from *dʰus- (“to breathe”)), but this is uncertain, since an initial f- would be expected in Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːs.ti.a/

Noun

bēstia f (genitive bēstiae); first declension

1. a beast

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bēstia	bēstiae
genitive	bēstiae	bēstiārum
dative	bēstiae	bēstiīs
accusative	bēstiam	bēstiās
ablative	bēstiā	bēstiīs
vocative	bēstia	bēstiae

Derived terms

Terms derived from bestia

• bēstiālis

• bēstiārius (“involving wild beasts; person who fights with wild beasts in the arena”)

• bēstiola (“a little creature or beast”)

Descendants

• Albanian: bishë
• Asturian: bestia
• Catalan: bèstia
• Czech: bestie
• Dutch: beest
• English: beast
• Esperanto: besto
• Old French: beste, bisse
  • French: bête, biche
• Friulian: bestie, bis, bise
• Galician: besta
• German: Bestie, Biest
• Ido: bestio
• Old Irish: píast
  • Irish: péist
  • Manx: beishteig

• Istriot: bies'cia
• Italian: bestia, biscia
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: beist
  • Nynorsk: beist
• Occitan: bèstia
• Old Portuguese: bestia, bescha, besta
• Papiamentu: bestia
• Polish: bestia
• Portuguese: besta, bicha
• Romanian: bestie
• Romansch: bestga
• Russian: бестия (bestija)
• Serbo-Croatian: beštija
• Slovak: beštia
• Spanish: bestia, bicha
• Swedish: best
• Venetian: bisa, bìsa

Noun

bēstiā

1. ablative singular of bēstia

References

• bestia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bestia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bestia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bestia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• bestia in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “bestia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 71
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001), “bestia”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, page 69b
• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “bestia”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume I, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 102
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 269

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Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbes̺.tja/

Noun

bestia f

1. Alternative form of besta

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese besta and Spanish bestia.

Noun

bestia

1. beast
2. animal

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bēstia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.stja/

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Noun

bestia f

1. beast (non-human animal)

Declension

declension of bestia

	singular	plural
nominative	bestia	bestie
genitive	bestii	bestii/bestyj
dative	bestii	bestiom
accusative	bestię	bestie
instrumental	bestią	bestiami
locative	bestii	bestiach
vocative	bestio	bestie

Further reading

• bestia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) bestga
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha

Etymology

From Latin bēstia.

Noun

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
• (Sursilvan) tier

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Spanish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin bēstia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbestja/

Noun

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. animal
2. (pejorative) a person who acts stupidly

Derived terms

• a lo bestia

Related terms

• bestial
• bestiario

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Venetian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bestia. Doublet of bìsa.

Noun

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. animal
2. beast
3. insect