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Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiola.
Noun
bestiola f (plural bestioles)
- small animal
- vermin, bug, worm
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin bēstiola.
Noun
bestiola f (plural bestiole)
- little animal or beast, creature
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
bēstia (“beast”) + -ola
Pronunciation
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.