bésta – Galician noun declension

Noun: bésta
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	bésta
Plural f	béstas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bésta

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 baesta (“crossbow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra). Cognate with Portuguese besta and Spanish ballesta. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'baesta', Latin Nouns 'ballista', Ancient Greek Nouns 'βαλλίστρα', Portuguese Nouns 'besta', Spanish Nouns 'ballesta'.

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