bec

bec

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Iceve-Maci.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Iceve-Maci terms

• beç

Onomatopoeic. From the bleating sound, with -c/ç suffix.^[1]

bec m (plural beca, definite beci, definite plural becat)

1. lamb

• rrunjë

Inherited from Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbek]
• Rhymes: -ek

bec m (plural becs)

1. beak, bill

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛk]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈbək]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbek]

bec

1. first-person singular present indicative of beure

Inherited from Old French bec, from Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/

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• IPA^(key): /bɛ/, /be/ (obsolete, but retained in béjaune and bédane)

bec m (plural becs)

1. (anatomy) beak, bill (of a bird)
2. (colloquial, North of France, Belgium, North America, Switzerland) kiss

   Synonyms: bécot, bise, bisou

   Elle m’a fait un bec en partant.

   She gave me a kiss in parting.

3. (slang) mouth

   Certains l’imaginent avec une pépée, un cigare au coin du bec, quelque part sous les cocotiers.

   Some imagined him with a pipe, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, somewhere under the coconut trees.

• → Portuguese: beque

• “bec”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• BCE

From Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos.

bec m (plural becs)

1. beak, bill (of a bird)

Borrowed from Old Norse bekkr (“brook, creek, stream”).

bec

1. river (cf. English: beck, a stream or small river)

• bœ̄ċ

• IPA^(key): /beːt͡ʃ/

bēċ

1. inflection of bōc:
   1. genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

From Latin beccus.

bec oblique singular, m (oblique plural bes, nominative singular bes, nominative plural bec)

1. beak, bill (of a bird)

• French: bec

• becc

From Proto-Celtic *biggos (“small”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲeɡ/

bec (comparative lugu)

1. small

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	bec	bec	bec
Vocative	bic* bec**
Accusative	bec	bic
Genitive	bic	bice	bic
Dative	biuc	bic	biuc
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	bic	beca
Vocative	bicu beca†
Accusative	bicu beca†
Genitive	bec
Dative	becaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

• Beccán

• Irish: beag
• Manx: beg
• Scottish Gaelic: beag

bec

1. almost (followed by the negative particle nach)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 90^c17

     .i. bec nacham·ralae i nderchoíniud ón

     i.e. that is, it has almost cast me into despair.

• Irish: beagnach

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from French bec (de gaz).

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bec n (plural becuri)

1. lightbulb

• → Polish: bek