baesta – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of baesta

Noun: baesta
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fbaesta
Plural fbaestas

Sample Sentences

  • 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]):]
  • 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:]

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.

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