Noun: bestia
Gender: f
mf
Hyphenation: bes‧tia
| Singular m | bestia |
| Singular f | bestia |
| Plural m | bestias |
| Plural f | bestias |
Sample Sentences
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Y á toda bestia de la tierra, y á todas las aves de los cielos, y á todo lo que se mueve sobre la tierra, en que hay vida, toda hierba verde les será para comer: y fué así. (‘And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food.’ And it was so.) [1909, “Génesis I”, in Casiodoro de Reina, transl., edited by Cipriano de Valera, Biblia Reina-Valera, Madrid: Depósito Central de la Sociedad Bíblica, page 2:]
Nouns inflected like bestia
egocentrista,
cervantista,
baloncestista,
minifundista,
seremi,
setita,
pactante,
semita,
senufo,
senpai,
pactista,
selfie,
violinista,
militante,
salame,
script,
epigramatista,
sonetista,
urbanista,
sonyer, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish bestia (“beast”), borrowed from Latin bēstia (“beast”). Compare English beast. Compare with the inherited doublets bicho and bicha. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
bestia', Old Spanish Nouns '
bestia', Latin Nouns '
bēstia', English Nouns '
beast'.
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