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]

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• 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)

   bec et ongles ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   nez en bec d’aigle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (music) mouthpiece; fipple

   flûte à bec ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (informal) mouth

   clouer le bec ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   puer du bec ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   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.

4. (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.

• → 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

• 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