Noun: baesta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | baesta |
| Plural f | baestas |
Sample Sentences
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Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃. (How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 154 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/296.html] facsimile]):]
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et da Torre do Ouro esso meesmo, cõ tra[bu]quetes que y tĩjnã, que os aqueixauã ademays, et cõ beestas de torno et de outras muytas maneyras (And the same from the Torre del Oro [a castle in Seville]: they were attacking them with little catapults and winched crossbows, and in many other ways) [1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 17:]
Nouns inflected like baesta
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin balista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra). Cognate with Old Spanish ballesta. See: Latin Nouns '
ballista', Latin Nouns '
ballista', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βαλλίστρα'.
Verbs referencing "baesta"
Galician Nouns
bésta, Galician Nouns
bestra.
Translations