bestia

From Latin bēstia (“animal, beast”).

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. beast

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “bestia”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From bes- +‎ tia.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈti.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [besˈti.a]

bestia f (plural besties)

1. great-aunt

• besoncle

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

• (Tuscany) IPA^(key): /ˈbe.stja/
  • Rhymes: -estja
  • Hyphenation: bé‧stia
• (central Italian, Rome) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.stja/^[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɛstja
  • Hyphenation: bè‧stia

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. beast
   • 13^th century, “ⅬⅩⅩⅩⅡ. De’ Pagoni [82. About Peacocks]”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture]‎^[1], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 474:

     Il nido si dee lor fare sotto tetto, e da terra levato, acciocchè serpente o bestia, andar non vi possa

     Their nest is to be made under a canopy, and above ground, so that no snake or [other] animal can get to it

• bestia da soma

• bestiale
• bestiario
• biscia

• → Romanian: bestie
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бѐштија, бе̏стија

  Latin script: 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 *dʰwes- (“to breathe”); more at English deer), but this is uncertain, since an initial f- would be expected in Latin; it apparently follows instead the same initial change of duellum>bellum (see w:History of Latin § Other sequences).

• bēstia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːs.ti.a/, [ˈbeːs̠t̪iä]
• bēstia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbes.ti.a/, [ˈbɛst̪iä]

bēstia f (genitive bēstiae); first declension

1. a beast
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.30.30:

     Leō fortissimus bēstiārum ad nūllīus pavēbit occursum.

     A lion, the strongest of beasts, who hath no fear of any thing he meeteth (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.)

First-declension noun.

• bēlua

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bestia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bestia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman 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, →ISBN, page 71
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “bestia”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[2] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 69b
• Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “bestia”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 102
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “269”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 269

• IPA^(key): /ˈbes̺.tja/

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. Alternative form of besta

From Portuguese besta and Spanish bestia.

bestia

1. beast
2. animal

Learned borrowing from Latin bēstia.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.tja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛstja
• Syllabification: bes‧tia

bestia f (diminutive bestyjka)

1. beast (non-human animal)

   Synonym: zwierz

2. (figurative) beast (person who behaves in a violent, antisocial, or uncivilized manner)

   Synonym: zwyrodnialec

• bestia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bestia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

bestia

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bestie

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

From Latin bēstia.

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. (Sursilvan) animal

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

Probably borrowed from Latin bēstia. Compare English beast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbestja/ [ˈbes.t̪ja]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -estja
• Syllabification: bes‧tia

bestia f (plural bestias)

1. beast

   Synonym: bicho

2. animal

   Synonym: animal

bestia m or f by sense (plural bestias)

1. (derogatory) brute (person who acts stupidly)

   Synonym: bruto

bestia m or f (masculine and feminine plural bestias)

1. (derogatory) brutal, coarse

   Él es demasiado bestia.

   He is too coarse.

• bestia de carga

• Papiamentu: bestia

• “bestia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “bestia” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010

Borrowed from Latin bestia. Doublet of bìsa.

bestia f (plural bestie)

1. animal
2. beast
3. insect