bestiola

Learned borrowing from Latin bēstiola.

bestiola f (plural bestioles)

1. small animal
2. vermin, bug, worm

• bèstia

• “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.

• bestiuola

From Latin bēstiola.

bestiola f (plural bestiole)

1. little animal or beast, creature

• bestiolina

• bestia

• aboliste, obliaste

bēstia (“beast”) +‎ -ola

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [beːsˈti.ɔ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [besˈt̪iː.o.la]

bēstiola f (genitive bēstiolae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

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

• “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.