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bestie
beast /besˈti.e/
noun#2933 most common
Also: brute, monster, wild animal
Example sentences
Leul este o bestie.
The lion is a beast.
Mi-e frică de bestia aceea mare.
I'm afraid of that big beast.
Vânătorii au urmărit bestia toată noaptea prin pădure.
The hunters chased the beast through the forest all night.
Ochii bestiei străluceau în întuneric.
The beast's eyes glowed in the dark.
S-a purtat ca o bestie cu toți cei din jurul lui.
He behaved like a brute toward everyone around him.
Legenda spune că, în vremuri străvechi, bestiile acelea sălbatice stăpâneau munții din nord.
Legend says that, in ancient times, those wild beasts ruled the mountains in the north.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bestie | bestii |
| Genitive | bestiei | bestiilor |
| Accusative | bestie | bestii |
| Vocative | bestio | bestiilor |
Word family
bestialbeastly, savage, brutal
bestialitatebestiality, brutality
a bestializato brutalize, to make bestial
bestiarbestiary (a book or catalogue of beasts)
Etymology
Bestie comes from Latin bestia, meaning a wild animal. Romanian took it in as a learned borrowing during the nineteenth-century wave of French and Latin vocabulary, rather than inheriting it directly from spoken Latin. The everyday, inherited Romanian word for a wild animal is fiară; bestie sits alongside it as a more formal or charged term, often carrying a judgment of cruelty or monstrousness rather than plain zoology.
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