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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/besto#Esperanto
besto
Esperanto
Wikipedia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikipedia
has an article on:
besto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:besto
Wikipedia eo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eo:besto
Etymology
From German
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language
Bestie
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bestie#German
, Italian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
bestia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestia#Italian
, Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
bestia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestia#Latin
. Pronunciation
Noun
besto (accusative singular
beston
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beston#Esperanto
, plural bestoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural bestojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bestojn#Esperanto
) animal
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal
- Synonym:
animalo
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animalo#Esperanto
nonhuman
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonhuman
animal
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal
beast
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beast
Usage notes
Since the very beginning of Esperanto, besto has meant any member of the
animal kingdom
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animal_kingdom
, including humans
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humans
. However, because many Esperanto speakers interpret it as meaning "non-human animal", animalo
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animalo#Esperanto
was coined to explicitly mean any animal including humans.