beta
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: bēʹtə, IPA(key): /ˈbiːtə/
- (US) enPR: bāʹtə, IPA(key): /ˈbeɪtə/
- (Philippines) enPR: bĕʹtə, IPA(key): /ˈbɛtə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtə, -eɪtə, (Philippines) -ɛtə
- Homophones: beater (UK, non-rhotic); baiter (US, non-rhotic)
Noun
[edit]beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- (education, rare) An academic grade better than a gamma and worse than an alpha.
- 1957, R. Avery, “This Week’s Competition”, in Time & Tide[1], volume 38, number 1, page 184:
- But let me tell you happy extroverts that only Vera Telfer and H. A. C. Evans got even an alpha minus; only T. E. Hendrie got a beta plus […]
- 1964, Randolph Churchill, The Fight for the Tory Leadership: A Contemporary Chronicle[2], page 49:
- Mr Taylor would hardly give a beta minus to one of his history students […]
- 1979, Angus MacVicar, Silver in My Sporran: Confessions of a Writing Man[3], page 76:
- The English class was for me delightful. My essays, still written under the influence of Kubla Khan, nearly always got a beta plus.
- (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- 2001, Cheng-Few Lee, editor, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, volume 8, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 143:
- An inspection of the results indicate that Property Trusts is the lowest risk industry with a long-run beta of 0.4520 while Gold is the highest risk industry with a long-run beta of 1.5229.
- (computing, video games)
- (uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.
- (countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
- 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:
- He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.
- 2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming[4], Pearson Education, →ISBN:
- We will assume you got the
.tgz
version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).
- 2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica[5]:
- Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.
- (proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.
- beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game
- (uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
- (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
- (aviation) Sideslip angle.
- (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
- Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
- (slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
- 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2010, →ISBN, page 24:
- She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.
- 2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:
- When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.
- 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die[7]:
- News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317:
- Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99:
- In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.
- 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom”, in Ashton Spacey, editor, The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction, page 119:
- Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.
Hyponyms
[edit](unfinished software):
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- alpha-beta filter
- alphabetagamma
- alpha-beta pruning
- amyloid beta
- amyloid-beta
- Becrux
- beta-antithrombin
- beta-beam
- beta blockade
- betabux
- betacetylmethadol
- beta city
- beta-compactification
- beta distribution
- beta error
- beta female
- beta fish
- beta function
- beta iron
- betaish
- beta-lactamase
- beta-lactamic
- betalight
- beta-lipoprotein
- beta male
- betameprodine
- betamethadol
- betamethasone
- betamimetic
- beta movement
- beta-naphthol
- beta orbiter
- beta-pleated sheet
- betaprodine
- betaproteobacterium
- beta quartz
- beta reduce
- beta reduction
- beta-sitosterol
- beta test, beta-test
- beta tester
- beta testing
- betathromboglobulin
- betatron
- betavoltaic
- betavoltaics
- betaware
- labetalol
- machete beta
- metallo-beta-lactamase
- New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1
- nonbeta
- region-beta paradox
Translations
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Adjective
[edit]beta (not comparable)
- Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
- Designates the second in an order of precedence.
- (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
- (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
Derived terms
[edit]- beta amino acid, beta-amino acid
- beta barrel, beta-barrel
- beta blocker, beta-blocker
- Betacam
- beta carbon nitride
- beta-carotene, beta carotene
- beta cell
- beta coefficient
- beta decay
- beta emitter
- beta form 1-3
- beta globin
- beta globulin
- beta-glucan
- beta-glucosidase
- beta helix
- beta lactam, beta-lactam
- betalike
- Betamax
- beta oxidation, beta-oxidation
- beta particle, β-particle
- beta-peptide
- beta radiation
- beta ray, β-ray
- beta reader
- beta receptor
- beta sheet
- beta strand
- beta version
- beta wave
Translations
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Verb
[edit]beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)
- (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
- (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [8]
- My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
- 2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180,
- Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
- 2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [9]
- The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
- 2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [10]
- I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [8]
Anagrams
[edit]Ambonese Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Classical Malay بيتا (beta, “I”).
Pronoun
[edit]beta
- I first-person singular pronoun
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[11], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Asturian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betes)
- beta (Greek letter)
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betes)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betes)
Further reading
[edit]- “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta n or f
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
[edit]when feminine:
Indeclinable when neuter.
Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
[edit]Declension of beta | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
n1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
accusative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
dative | beta | betanum | betum | betunum |
genitive | beta | betans | betna | betnanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta m (plural betas)
- beta (Greek letter)
Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta n (genitive singular beta, no plural)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
[edit]Declension of beta | ||
---|---|---|
n-w | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | beta | betað |
accusative | beta | betað |
dative | beta | betanu |
genitive | beta | betans |
Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Malay beta, probably from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ita (“we”).
Noun
[edit]beta
Usage notes
[edit]The pronoun is obsolete in common use and limited in literature and Moluccas dialect.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta (first-person possessive betaku, second-person possessive betamu, third-person possessive betanya)
- beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta (first-person possessive betaku, second-person possessive betamu, third-person possessive betanya)
- male groom sarong
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta
- abbreviation of benda terbang aneh (“unidentified flying object”).
Further reading
[edit]- “beta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta f (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Latin bēta (“beet”), from Celtic.
Noun
[edit]beta f (plural bete)
Anagrams
[edit]Jamaican Creole
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beta
- comparative degree of gud: better
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 11:15:
- Enibadi we av iez — beta lisn gud!
- Anybody who has ears – better listen good!
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]beta
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin,[1][2] but no obvious Celtic cognates exist. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.
Noun
[edit]bēta f (genitive bētae); first declension
- A beet.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bēta | bētae |
genitive | bētae | bētārum |
dative | bētae | bētīs |
accusative | bētam | bētās |
ablative | bētā | bētīs |
vocative | bēta | bētae |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: bleda (partially), bleda-rave
- French: bette, betterave, blette (partially)
- Irish: biatas
- Italian: bieta (partially), bietola
- Norman: betterave
- Sicilian: jiti (Southern East of Sicily) (it is probably pluralia tantum but preceded by definite article "a")
- → Proto-West Germanic: *bētā (see there for further descendants)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]bēta n (indeclinable)
- The Greek letter beta.
References
[edit]- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- beta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- Berti-Pichat (1866)
- Baxter (1837)
- Poiret (1827)
- von Lippmann (1925)
- Geschwind & Sellier (1902)
- Pabst (1887)
- Becker-Dillengen (1928)
- Biancardi, Panella & Lewellen (2011): Beta maritima: The Origin of Beets
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “beet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]beta (Jawi spelling بيتا)
See also
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta (Jawi spelling بيتا, plural beta-beta, informal 1st possessive betaku, 2nd possessive betamu, 3rd possessive betanya)
- beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]beta
- third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
- Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.
- Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta), from Phoenician 𐤁 (b /bēt/).
Noun
[edit]beta f
- beta (Greek letter Β, β)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]beta m inan
Further reading
[edit]- beta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- beta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: be‧ta
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin beta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betas)
- beta (all senses)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betas)
- beet (plant)
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]beta
- inflection of betar:
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta m (plural beta)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bȅta f (Cyrillic spelling бе̏та)
Declension
[edit]Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) OR
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Usage notes
[edit]- When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined.
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “beta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta) ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beta f (plural betas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “beta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Latin bēta, from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
[edit]beta n or c
Declension
[edit]Verb
[edit]beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to test software prior to release
Conjugation
[edit]Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | beta | betas | ||
Supine | betat | betats | ||
Imperative | beta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | beten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | betar | betade | betas | betades |
Ind. plural1 | beta | betade | betas | betades |
Subjunctive2 | bete | betade | betes | betades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | betande | |||
Past participle | betad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Etymology 2
[edit]Ultimately from Latin bēta (“beet”).
Noun
[edit]beta c
Declension
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to graze; to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
Conjugation
[edit]Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | beta | betas | ||
Supine | betat | betats | ||
Imperative | beta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | beten | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | betar | betade | betas | betades |
Ind. plural1 | beta | betade | betas | betades |
Subjunctive2 | bete | betade | betes | betades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | betande | |||
Past participle | betad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
See also
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Clipping of betaga; be- + ta. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]beta (present betar, preterite betog, supine betagit, imperative beta)
- to steal
Conjugation
[edit]Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | beta | betas | ||
Supine | betagit | betagits | ||
Imperative | beta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | betan | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | betar | betog | betas | betogs |
Ind. plural1 | beta | betogo | betas | betogos |
Subjunctive2 | beta | betoge | betas | betoges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | betagande | |||
Past participle | betagen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | betaga | betagas | ||
Supine | betagit | betagits | ||
Imperative | betag | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | betagen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | betager | betog | betages | betogs |
Ind. plural1 | betaga | betogo | betagas | betogos |
Subjunctive2 | betage | betoge | betages | betoges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | betagande | |||
Past participle | betagen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
References
[edit]- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːtə
- Rhymes:English/iːtə/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə
- Rhymes:English/eɪtə/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɛtə
- Rhymes:English/ɛtə/2 syllables
- English terms with homophones
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- en:Education
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- en:Omegaverse
- en:Greek letter names
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- ast:Greek letter names
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- ca:Greek letter names
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- cs:Greek letter names
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- Rhymes:Faroese/eːʰta
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