beto

See also: Beto

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbeto/
  • Rhymes: -eto
  • Hyphenation: be‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin bēta.

Noun

beto (accusative singular beton, plural betoj, accusative plural betojn)

  1. red beet

Etymology 2

Greek Alphabet
Ββ Previous: alfo
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From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta).

Noun

beto (accusative singular beton, plural betoj, accusative plural betojn)

  1. beta

Ido

Noun

beto (plural beti)

  1. red beet

Kituba

Pronoun

beto

  1. we

Latin

Alternative forms

Verb

bētō (present infinitive bētere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

  1. alternative form of baetō (to go)

Conjugation

Further reading

  • beto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "beto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • beto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Beto (a male given name).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛ.tu/

  • Rhymes: -ɛtu
  • Homophone: veto (Northern Portugal)
  • Hyphenation: be‧to

Adjective

beto (feminine beta, masculine plural betos, feminine plural betas)

  1. (Portugal, colloquial, derogatory) dandy, posh

Noun

beto m (plural betos, feminine beta, feminine plural betas)

  1. (Portugal, colloquial, derogatory) dandy (a young, upper-class man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
    Synonyms: betinho, (Brazil) mauricinho
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

beto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of betar

Swedish

Verb

beto

  1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of bita

Anagrams

Ternate

Etymology

From N- (nominalizer) +‎ feto (to complain).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbe.to]

Noun

beto

  1. a word

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh