bête
French
noun
Definitions
- beast, animal
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French beste inherited from Old French beste derived from Latin bēstia (beast, animal), bēsta.
Origin
Latin
bēsta
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beast English
- beastdom English
- beasten English
- beasthood English
- beastie English
- beastify English
- beasting English
- beastish English
- beastkind English
- beastlike English
- beastling English
- beastly English
- beastman English
- beastmaster English
- bebeast English
- bêtise English
- cattlebeast English
- hambeast English
- hosebeast English
- merbeast English
- minibeast English
- unbeast English
- werebeast English
- wonderbeast English
- *bīstia Latin
- *bīstius Latin
- bestia Latin
- bestiarius Latin
- bestiola Latin
- bestula Latin
- bēsta Latin
- bēstia Latin
- bēstiālis Latin
- bēstiārium Latin
- bīstia Latin
- Bestie German
- bestia Italian
- biscia Italian
- biscione Italian
- abêtifier French
- bétail French
- bétaillère French
- bête-puante French
- bêtement French
- bêtifier French
- bêtise French
- bêtiser French
- pense-bête French
- penser French
- puant French
- бестия Russian
- bestia Spanish, Castilian
- *bik Proto-Germanic
- bestia Polish
- beeste Middle English
- beste Old French
- bèstia Catalan, Valencian
- beest Middle Dutch
- beeste Middle Dutch
- bestio Ido
- píast Old Irish
- baête Norman
- beet Norman
- bête Norman
- beste Middle French
- *bischo Old Portuguese
- bescha Old Portuguese
- besta Old Portuguese
- bēst Middle Low German
- bèstia Occitan
- bes-cha Romansh
- bestga Romansh
- bestia Romansh
- biestg Romansh
- bist Western Frisian
- bèt Haitian, Haitian Creole
- biesse Walloon