bette

From Latin bēta.

• IPA^(key): /bɛt/

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• Homophones: bettes (general), bête, bêtes (except regionally)
• Rhymes: -ɛt

bette f (plural bettes)

1. chard (vegetable)

   Synonym: blette

2. beet plant
3. (Quebec, regional) beet, beetroot (vegetable)

• The most common popular and commercial term for the vegetable in Quebec, as elsewhere, is betterave.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.tə/

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bette

1. inflection of betten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

bette

1. heavy

• Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 82, 121

bette

1. Alternative form of bet

bette

1. Alternative form of bet

bette

1. Alternative form of bet

Inherited from Old High German betti, from Proto-West Germanic *badi.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbettə/

bette n

1. bed

   Siu lît ûf dëm bette. ― She is lying on the bed.

2. flowerbed

• Alemannic German: Bett

  Swabian: Bedd

• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: pett

• German: Bett (“bed”), Beet (“flowerbed”)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “bette”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Latin bēta.

bette f (plural bettes)

1. (Jersey) spinach

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːt.te/

bētte

1. inflection of bētan:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive