beet

• enPR: bēt, IPA^(key): /biːt/

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• Homophone: beat
• Rhymes: -iːt

From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

beet (countable and uncountable, plural beets)

2. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

   The beet is a hardy species.

3. (US, Canada) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:

     In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.

   • 2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2023:

     In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”

Unlike beetroot, beet is usually countable when referring to the food: pickled beets (but pickled beetroot).

• chard

• → Chickasaw: (from the plural) biits
• → Hawaiian: piki
• → Japanese: ビート (beet)
• → Korean: 비트 (biteu)
• → Maori: pīti

• chard
• mangelwurzel
• orach
• spinach

• beet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:beets on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Beta vulgaris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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• beet at University of Melbourne "Sorting plant names"

From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.

• bete

beet

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

• bete

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

• IPA^(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]

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beet (plural bete)

1. beetroot

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /beːt/
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [beːt]
  • (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [beɪ̯t]

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• Hyphenation: beet
• Rhymes: -eːt

From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. bite

• Negerhollands: bit

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

1. alternative form of biet

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

beet

1. singular past indicative of bijten

• bete

beet

1. nominative plural of bee

beet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

beet

1. alternative form of bete

• baête (continental)
• bête (Jersey, Guernsey)

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

beet f (plural beets)

1. (Sark) animal