bestiola

== Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiola. By surface analysis, bèstia +‎ -ola. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [bəs.tiˈo̞.lə] IPA(key): (Balearic, Central) [bəs.tiˈɔ.lə] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [bes.tiˈɔ.la] Rhymes: -ɔla Hyphenation: bes‧ti‧o‧la === Noun === bestiola f (plural bestioles, diminutive bestioleta) diminutive of bèstia: small animal vermin, bug, worm === Further reading === “bestiola”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “bestiola”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == Italian == === Alternative forms === bestiuola (literary) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiola. By surface analysis, bestia +‎ -ola. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /besˈtjɔ.la/ Rhymes: -ɔla Hyphenation: be‧stiò‧la === Noun === bestiola f (plural bestiole, diminutive bestiolina or bestioletta) diminutive of bestia: little animal or beast, creature === Anagrams === aboliste, obliaste == Latin == === Etymology === From bēstia (“beast”) + -ola. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [beːsˈti.ɔ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [besˈtiː.o.la] === Noun === bēstiola f (genitive bēstiolae); first declension diminutive of bēstia a little creature or beast ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === 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.