Noun: bête
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bête |
| Plural f | bêtes |
Sample Sentences
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Je pense qu'il est une bête ! (I think that he is a fool!)
Nouns inflected like bête
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French beste, from Old French beste, probably partially borrowed from Classical Latin bēstia (“beast”), or less likely from an alternative Vulgar Latin bēsta (“animal”). Compare biche (probably from Old French bisse, itself from Vulgar Latin bīstia; compare Italian biscia). See: Latin Nouns '
bēstia', Italian Nouns '
biscia'.
Verbs referencing "bête"
Swedish Nouns
bet, English Nouns
beast, Catalan Nouns
bèstia, Finnish Nouns
pieti.
Translations