bestiola

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiola.

Noun

bestiola f (plural bestioles)

1. small animal
2. vermin, bug, worm

Related terms

• bèstia

Further reading

• “bestiola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bestiola” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Alternative forms

• bestiuola

Etymology

From Latin bēstiola.

Noun

bestiola f (plural bestiole)

1. little animal or beast, creature

Derived terms

• bestiolina

Related terms

• bestia

Anagrams

• aboliste, obliaste

Latin

Etymology

bēstia (“beast”) +‎ -ola

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /beːsˈti.o.la/, [beːs̠ˈt̪iɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /besˈti.o.la/, [besˈt̪iːolä]

Noun

bēstiola f (genitive bēstiolae); first declension

1. diminutive of bēstia
2. a little creature or beast

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bēstiola	bēstiolae
genitive	bēstiolae	bēstiolārum
dative	bēstiolae	bēstiolīs
accusative	bēstiolam	bēstiolās
ablative	bēstiolā	bēstiolīs
vocative	bēstiola	bēstiolae

Descendants

• Istriot: bis'ciuleîna
• → Catalan: bestiola
• → French: bestiole
• → Italian: bestiola
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: bestiola
  • Portuguese: bestiola

References

• “bestiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bestiola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bestiola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.