Noun: besta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | besta |
| Plural f | bestas |
Sample Sentences
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pelas bestas de caualgar et carrega (for the animals [used] for riding or for carrying load) [1326, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:]
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Dixêronme que asta á besta que trouxêra á balixâ con tan boa notisea, chegara mais sedo do que habia doito leda coma un cuco. (They told me that even the horse that brought the postbag with such good news arrived earlier than usual, happy as a lark.) [1813, anonymous author, Conversa no adro da igrexa:]
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Virés acò meu Dieguiño
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cando ò tempo milloràr,
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porqe si escorrega á Besta
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è esbarroufàs, alabay. (You'll come here my little Diego
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when the weather improves
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because if the mount slips
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and you sprawl, here goes nothing!) [1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:]
Nouns inflected like besta
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese besta, from Latin bēstia (“beast”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
besta', Latin Nouns '
bēstia'.
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