beet

See also: Beet, bèèt, and be- -et

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bēt, IPA(key): /biːt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Homophone: beat
  • Rhymes: -iːt

Etymology 1

    A pile of beets.

    From Middle English bete, from Old English bēte, from Latin bēta, possibly of Celtic origin.

    Noun

    beet (countable and uncountable, plural beets)

    2. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.
      The beet is a hardy species.
    3. (US, Canada) A beetroot; a swollen root of such a plant used as a culinary vegetable.
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:
        In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
      • 2023 December 5, Ella Quittner, “How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2023:
        In the past several years, Moonbelly and Faria, two bakeries whose flaky croissants and elegant loaves rival those at Du Pain et des Idées in Paris, have opened, with rotating offerings of buckwheat coffee cake, roasted bok choy-milk bread buns and focaccia sandwiches stuffed with beet and feta sold under the moniker “girl dinner.”
    Usage notes

    Unlike beetroot, beet is usually countable when referring to the food: pickled beets (but pickled beetroot).

    Hyponyms
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • → Chickasaw: (from the plural) biits
    • → Hawaiian: piki
    • → Japanese: ビート (beet)
    • → Korean: 비트 (biteu)
    • → Māori: pīti
    Translations

    See also

    References

    Etymology 2

    From Middle English beten, from Old English bētan.

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    beet

    1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
    2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
    3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

    Anagrams

    Afrikaans

    Etymology

    From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /biə̯t/, [biət]
    • Audio:(file)

    Noun

    beet (plural bete)

    1. beetroot

    References

    Dutch

    Pronunciation

    Etymology 1

    From Middle Dutch bēte, from Old Dutch *biti, from Proto-Germanic *bitiz.

    Noun

    beet m (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

    1. bite
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Negerhollands: bit

    Etymology 2

    From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

    Noun

    beet f (plural beten, diminutive beetje n)

    1. alternative form of biet
    Derived terms

    Etymology 3

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    beet

    1. singular past indicative of bijten

    Anagrams

    Finnish

    Noun

    beet

    1. nominative plural of bee

    Latin

    Verb

    beet

    1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of beō

    Middle English

    Noun

    beet

    1. alternative form of bete

    Norman

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

    Noun

    beet f (plural beets)

    1. (Sark) animal

    Ulithian

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Germanic *badją
    Proto-West Germanic *badi
    Old English bedd
    Middle English bed
    English bedbor.
    Ulithian beet

      Borrowed from English bed.

      Noun

      beet

      1. (furniture) bed

      References

      • Yap State Department of Education (2025), Yaar Yaelwich Dekseneeri Irel Yal'ool Yiuldiy [Children's Picture Dictionary In Ulithian]‎[2] (in Ulithian and English), 1st edition, Auckland, New Zealand: Ultimo Global, page 7

      Yucatec Maya

      Verb

      beet (transitive)

      1. to make, create
        Tu káajbaleʼ Dioseʼ tu beetaj le kaʼanoʼoboʼ bey xan le luʼumoʼ (Genesis 1:1).
        In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
      2. to do

      Conjugation

      Conjugation of beet
      singular plural
      1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
      imperfective kin beetik ka beetik ku beetik k beetik ka beetikeʼex ku beetikoʼob
      perfective tin beetaj ta beetaj tu beetaj t k beetaj ta beetajeʼex tu beetajoʼob
      subjunctive ka in beetej ka a beetej ka u beetej ka k beetej ka a beeteʼex ka u beetoʼob
      imperative — beetej — — beeteʼex —
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