bestia

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. beast

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “bestia”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0

bes- +‎ tia

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bəsˈti.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /besˈti.a/

bestia f (plural besties)

1. great-aunt

• besoncle

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbestja/

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. beast

• bestia da soma

• bestiale
• bestiario
• biscia

• → Romanian: bestie
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐштија, бе̏стија

  Latin: bèštija, bȅstija

• basite
• beasti

The origin is unknown. A Proto-Indo-European preform *dʰwēstiā 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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːs.ti.a/

bēstia f (genitive bēstiae); first declension

1. a beast

First declension.

• → Asturian: bestia
• → Czech: bestie
• → Friulian: bestie
• → German: Bestie
• → Italian: bestia
  • → Romanian: bestie
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: бѐштија, бе̏стија

    Latin: bèštija, bȅstija

• → Old French: beste
  • Middle French: beste
    • French: bête
  • Gallo: bestt
  • Norman: baête (Cotentin), beyte (Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen), beet (Sark)
  • → Middle Dutch: beest
    • Dutch: beest
    • → Middle Low German: best
      • → Danish: bæst
      • → German: Biest
      • → Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: beist
      • → Swedish: best
  • → Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast
    • English: beast
    • Scots: beast
• → Old Irish: píast, péist
  • Middle Irish: péist
    • Irish: péist
    • Manx: beisht
    • Scottish Gaelic: bèist
• → Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: bèstia
  • Occitan: bèstia
• → Old Portuguese: besta, bestia
  • Galician: besta
  • Portuguese: besta
• → Polish: bestia
• → Romansch: bestga, biestg, bestia, bes-cha
• → Russian: бестия (bestija)
• → Slovak: beštia
• → Spanish: bestia
  • Papiamentu: bestia
• → Venetian: bestia
• → Yiddish: בעסטיע‎‎‎ (bestye‎‎)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: bīstia
  • Emilian: bìsa, béssa
  • Istriot: bies'cia
  • Italian: biscia
  • Old French: bisse, biche
    • Middle French: biche
      • French: biche
  • Old Portuguese: bescha
    • Galician: bicha
    • Portuguese: bicha
      • Kabuverdianu: bitchu
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: bicha
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: bis, bise
  • Romagnol: bìssa
  • Venetian: bisa, bìsa
  • → Albanian: bishë

bēstiā

1. ablative singular of bēstia

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbes̺.tja/

bestia f

1. Alternative form of besta

From Portuguese besta and Spanish bestia.

bestia

1. beast
2. animal

Borrowed from Latin bēstia[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.stja/

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bestia f

1. beast (non-human animal)

• bestia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

bestia

1. definite nominative singular of bestie
2. definite accusative singular of bestie

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

From Latin bēstia.

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

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

Probably borrowed from Latin bēstia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbestja/

bestia f (plural bestias)

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

• a lo bestia

• bestial
• bestiario

• Papiamentu: bestia

Borrowed from Latin bestia. Doublet of bìsa.

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. animal
2. beast
3. insect