bes

See also: bèṡ, bèś, bêş, bêś, beş, bes-, Bęś, and BES

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /biːz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz
  • Homophone: bees

Verb

bes

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of be.
    • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
      She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
    • 1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353:
      "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im."
    • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
      And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.
  2. (dialectal, nonstandard) Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.
    • 1850, William Stevens Balch, Ireland, as I Saw it:
      She bes there these five yare, an' has sint hoome foor her broother an' sister, the mooney for their passage, an' they bes goone these thra yares.
    • 2005, Brenda Dooling, The Diamond Cage, →ISBN, page 236:
      And she bes white. Now, I bes what they use to call a house nigra. I don't work in no fields. And you know, I likes my color. Sho' not real fair, and not real dark either. I bes just who I be.

Usage notes

Into the Early Modern English period, be was still sometimes inflected like regular verbs in the ordinary present indicative (i.e. "they be", in addition to "they are"), although "he bes" was uncommon (compare "he beeth").[1] Today, such inflected forms are limited to the alternate, dynamic / lexical conjugation of be described in its Usage notes.

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Henry Sweet, A Primer of Historical English Grammar (1893), page 88: The use of be in the pres. indic. is still kept up in Early MnE: I be, thou beest, they be, etc.; the form he bes is, however, very rare.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from a Vulgar Latin vissiō (attested in glosses). Compare Daco-Romanian băși, băs.

Verb

bes (past participle bishitã)

  1. I fart.
  • bishiri / bishire
  • bishit
  • bishinã
  • bishinedz

Balinese

Conjunction

bes

  1. too (as in too hard, too much etc.)
    bes joh
    too far (away)

Balinese Index

Catalan

Etymology 1

Noun

bes

  1. plural of be

Etymology 2

From Latin basium.

Noun

bes m (plural besos)

  1. kiss
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

bes m (plural bessos)

  1. strip of cloth used as part of a sail or a flag

Further reading

Cornish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bɨd, from Proto-Celtic *bitus.

Pronunciation

  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [beːz]

Noun

bes m (plural besow)

  1. (Revived Late Cornish) world

Mutation

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛs/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs
  • audio(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bes, from Old Dutch besi, from Proto-Germanic *basją. Compare English berry, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

Noun

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. berry
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (music) B flat

Etymology 3

From besje, from bestemoer or bestemoeder (“grandma, old woman”).

Alternative forms

  • bestje

Noun

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

  1. (chiefly diminutive) an old woman

Latin

Etymology

From a derivative of *duō (“two”) (compare bis) + as

Pronunciation

Noun

bes m (genitive bessis); third declension

  1. two-thirds, or a two-thirds part of any unit
  2. a coin worth two-thirds of an as

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative bes bessēs
genitive bessis bessium
dative bessī bessibus
accusative bessem bessēs
ablative besse bessibus
vocative bes bessēs

References

  • bes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bes

  1. passive form of be

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Verb

bes

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive relative of is

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *běsъ (“evil spirit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bêːs/

Noun

bȇs m (Cyrillic spelling бе̑с)

  1. rage
  2. fury
  3. madness
  4. mania
  5. tantrum
  6. wildness
  7. ferocity
  8. rampage

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bes/
  • Homophones: ves, vez (non-Castilian)

Noun

bes

  1. plural of be

Swedish

Verb

bes

  1. infinitive passive of be.
  2. present tense passive of be.
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