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beta
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta)
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: b??t?, IPA(key): /?bi?t?/
- (US) enPR: b??t?, IPA(key): /?be?t?/
- Rhymes: -i?t?, -e?t?
- (UK) Homophone: beater (non-rhotic accents)
- (US) Homophone: baiter (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
beta (plural betas)
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (?, ?), preceded by alpha (?, ?) and followed by gamma, (?, ?). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- Used in marking scheme: ?, ?, ? or ?+, ?, ?-, ? etc.
- (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
- 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans (page 107)
- He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.
- 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans (page 107)
- (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
- (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
- (aviation) Sideslip angle.
- (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
- Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
- (slang, manosphere) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- “I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”
- 2010, L. A. Banks, "Dog Tired (of the Drama!)", in Blood Lite II: Overbite (ed. Kevin J. Anderson), Gallery Books (2010), ?ISBN, page 121:
- “They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]
- 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca (2010), ?ISBN, page 24:
- She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a (usually secondary) gender/sex that mirrors the biology of a normal human, being free from the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:
- Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99:
- In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.
- 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 119:
- Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:
Coordinate terms
(sideslip angle): alpha, gamma, theta
Derived terms
- betavoltaic
- betavoltaics
Translations
Adjective
beta (not comparable)
- Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
- Designates the second in an order of precedence.
- (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
- (of a person, object or action) associated with the beta male/female archetype.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)
- (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
- (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [3]
- My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
- 2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), ?ISBN, page 180,
- Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
- 2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [4]
- The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
- 2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [5]
- I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [3]
Anagrams
- Bate, Teba, abet, bate, beat
Ambonese Malay
Pronoun
beta
- I first-person singular pronoun
Asturian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
- beta (Greek letter)
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?b?.t?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?b?.ta/
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
- beta; the Greek letter ? (lowercase ?).
Etymology 2
From Occitan beta.
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
- boat; specifically a small, flat-bottom boat common to the coasts of Provence and Languedoc.
Further reading
- “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Faroese
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Noun
beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Derived terms
- betageisli m
- betageisling f
Galician
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta m (plural betas)
- beta (Greek letter)
Icelandic
Noun
beta n (genitive singular alfa, no plural)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.ta/
- Rhymes: -?ta
- Hyphenation: bè?ta
Etymology 1
From Latin b?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta f (invariable)
- The name of the Greek script letter ?/?; beta
- (computing) beta (software version)
Derived terms
- betacismo
Related terms
- bet
Etymology 2
From Latin b?ta (“beet”), from Celtic.
Noun
beta f (plural bete)
- Alternative form of bieta; beet
Anagrams
- beat
Japanese
Romanization
beta
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Etymology 1
Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin, but no obvious Celtic cognates exist. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.
Noun
b?ta f (genitive b?tae); first declension
- A beet.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Sicilian: jiti (Southern East of Sicily) (it is probably pluralia tantum but preceded by definite article "a")
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
b?ta n (indeclinable)
- The Greek letter beta.
References
- beta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- beta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- beta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN
- Berti-Pichat (1866)
- Baxter (1837)
- Poiret (1827)
- von Lippmann (1925)
- Geschwind & Sellier (1902)
- Pabst (1887)
- Becker-Dillengen (1928)
- Biancardi, Panella & Lewellen (2011): Beta maritima: The Origin of Beets
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /bet?/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /beta/
- Rhymes: -et?, -t?, -?
Etymology 1
From Court Malay, Beta.
Pronoun
beta (Jawi spelling ?????)
- (Palace Malay) I, me, my (exclusive use in royalty, subject is either king or queen)
See also
- aku
- saya
- patik
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta (Jawi spelling ?????, plural beta-beta, informal 1st possessive betaku, impolite 2nd possessive betamu, 3rd possessive betanya)
- beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- bete
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?eda/
Verb
beta
- third-person plural present subjunctive relative of is
- c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
- c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Latin beta, from Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beta (all senses)
Etymology 2
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beet (plant)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bêta/
- Hyphenation: be?ta
Noun
b?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- beta, the Greek letter, ?, ?
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?beta]
Noun
beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) OR
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Usage notes
When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined.
Declension
References
- beta in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???? (bêta) ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?beta/, [?be.t?a]
- Homophone: veta
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beta; the Greek letter ?, ?
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology 1
Latin b?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (bêta).
Noun
beta n or c
- beta; the Greek letter ?, ?
- (computing) a beta version of a program
- (slang) short for minnesbeta
Declension
Verb
beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to test software prior to release
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Latin b?ta (“beet”).
Noun
beta c
- beetroot
Declension
Etymology 3
bete +? -a
Verb
beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to graze; to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
Conjugation
See also
- beta av
- bete
Etymology 4
Clipping of betaga; be- +? ta. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??t??/
Verb
beta (present betar, preterite betog, supine betagit, imperative beta)
- to steal
Conjugation
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bega
English
Noun
bega (plural begas)
- Alternative form of bigha
Anagrams
- Gabe, beag
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bega
- first-person singular present indicative of begaan
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of begaan
- imperative of begaan
Italian
Etymology
From Gothic *???????????????? (*b?ga, “quarrel”), ultimately from the root of Proto-Germanic *b?gan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.?a/, /?be.?a/
- Rhymes: -??a, -e?a
- Hyphenation: bè?ga, bé?ga
Noun
bega f (plural beghe)
- quarrel, dispute
- (by extension) A troubled situation.
Derived terms
- begare
References
- bega in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- begav
Verb
bega
- simple past of begi
Phuthi
Verb
-bega
- to cut into strips (meat for cooking)
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Slovene
Noun
béga
- inflection of b??g:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
bega (ma class, plural mabega)
- shoulder
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