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Ancient Greek: βῆτα | ||
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Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta). Дублети of beth.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: bēʹtə, МФА(кључ): /ˈbiːtə/
- (US) enPR: bāʹtə, МФА(кључ): /ˈbeɪtə/
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- (UK) Homophone: beater (non-rhotic accents)
- (US) Homophone: baiter (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
beta (plural betas)
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β 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.
- The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.
- (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.
- 2015 фебруар 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica[1]:
- Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.
- 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.
- Алтернативно спеловање од betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
- (slang, manosphere, masculism) 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.
- 2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:
- When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.
- 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die[2]:
- News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking 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
Derived terms
Translations
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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
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Ambonese Malay
Etymology
From Classical Malay بيتا (beta, “I”).
Pronoun
beta
- I first-person singular pronoun
Alternative forms
References
Asturian
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
- beta (Greek letter)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
Etymology 2
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
Further reading
- “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Faroese
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Пра-Семитски *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta nScript error: The function "template_categorize" does not exist. (genitive singular beta, plural betu)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
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n1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
accusative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
dative | beta | betanum | betum | betunum |
genitive | beta | betans | betna | betnanna |
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta m (plural betas)
- beta (Greek letter)
Icelandic
Noun
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- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
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Италијански
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Латински bēta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural #)
- The name of the Greek script letter Β/β; beta
- (computing) beta (software version)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Латински bēta (“beet”), from Celtic.
Noun
beta f (plural bete)
Anagrams
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Romanization
beta
Латински
Etymology 1
Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin,[1][2] 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
beta
- A beet.
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bēta | bētae |
Genitive | bētae | bētārum |
Dative | bētae | bētīs |
Accusative | bētam | bētās |
Ablative | bētā | bētīs |
Vocative | bēta | bētae |
Descendants
- Каталонски: bleda (partially), bleda-rave
- Дански: bede
- Естонски: peet
- Средњи Холандски: bete
- Холандски: biete
- Стари Енглески: bēte
- Енглески: beet
- Француски: bette, betterave, blette (partially)
- Middle Low German: bete
- Немачки: Bete
- Ирски: biatas
- Италијански: bieta (partially), bietola
- Latvian: biete
- Norwegian Bokmål: bete
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bete
- Norman: betterave
- Old Frisian: bete
- Old High German: bieza
- Sicilian: jiti (Southern East of Sicily) (it is probably pluralia tantum but preceded by definite article "a")
- Шведски: beta
Etymology 2
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta
- 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)
- Шаблон:R:es:Roberts:2014
- 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
- ↑ Шаблон:R:OED
- ↑ “beet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2023.
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Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) МФА(кључ): /betə/
- (Riau-Lingga) МФА(кључ): /beta/
- Риме: -etə, -tə, -ə
Etymology 1
From Court Malay, Beta.
Pronoun
See also
Etymology 2
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta (Jawi spelling بيتا)
- beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
beta
- треће лице множине презента subjunctive relative од is
- Шаблон:RQ:sga-gloss
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—Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn., Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. Шаблон:m-g), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. Шаблон:m-g).
- Шаблон:RQ:sga-gloss
Polish
Pronunciation
- МФА(кључ): /ˈbɛ.ta/
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- Syllabification: be‧ta
Etymology 1
Позајмљено од Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta), from Phoenician 𐤁 (b /bēt/).
Noun
beta f
- beta Галицијски
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
beta m inan
Further reading
- beta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- beta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Португалски
Etymology 1
From Латински beta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beta (all senses)
Etymology 2
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beet (plant)
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Romanian
Etymology
Noun
beta m (plural beta)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
Noun
bȅta f (Ћирилица правопис бе̏та)
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) Script error: The function "template_categorize" does not exist. OR
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- beta (Greek letter)
Usage notes
When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined.
Declension
References
- beta in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Шпански
Etymology
From Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta) ultimately from Пра-Семитски *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “beta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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Swedish
Etymology 1
Латински bēta, from Антички Грчки βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta n or c
- beta; the Greek letter Β, β
- (computing) a beta version of a program
- (slang) short for minnesbeta
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betat | beta | betan |
Genitive | betas | betats | betas | betans |
Declension of beta | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betan | betor | betorna |
Genitive | betas | betans | betors | betornas |
Verb
- to test software prior to release
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Латински bēta (“beet”).
Noun
beta c
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betan | betor | betorna |
Genitive | betas | betans | betors | betornas |
Etymology 3
Verb
- to graze; to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
Conjugation
See also
Etymology 4
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Pronunciation
Verb
- to steal
Conjugation
- Енглески говор
- Енглески термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Енглески појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Енглески дублети
- Енглески 2-слог речи
- Енглески термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Енглески/iːtə
- Риме:Енглески/iːtə/2 слогова
- Риме:Енглески/eɪtə
- Риме:Енглески/eɪtə/2 слогова
- Енглески термини са хомофонима
- Енглески леме
- Енглески именице
- Енглески бројевне именице
- Енглески uncountable nouns
- Енглески terms with usage examples
- Енглески countable nouns
- Енглески термини са наводима
- Енглески slang
- Енглески ellipses
- Енглески fandom slang
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/ar
- Арапски црвене везе
- Арапски црвене везе/т
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/ru
- Енглески придеви
- Енглески uncomparable adjectives
- Енглески глаголи
- en:Omegaverse
- en:Greek letter names
- Ambonese Malay појмови изведени из Classical Malay
- Ambonese Malay pronoun
- Asturian термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Asturian појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Asturian леме
- Asturian именице
- Missing Asturian plurals
- ast:Greek letter names
- Каталонски 2-слог речи
- Каталонски термини са ИПА изговором
- Каталонски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Каталонски леме
- Каталонски именице
- Каталонски термини позајмљени од Occitan
- Каталонски појмови изведени из Occitan
- ca:Greek letter names
- ca:Watercraft
- Чешки термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Чешки појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Чешки леме
- Чешки именице
- Чешки neuter именице
- cs:Greek letter names
- Фарски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Фарски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Фарски појмови изведени из Пра-Семитски
- Фарски термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Фарски/eːʰta
- Фарски термини са хомофонима
- Фарски леме
- Фарски именице
- fo:Greek letter names
- Галицијски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Галицијски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Галицијски леме
- Галицијски именице
- gl:Greek letter names
- Исландски леме
- Исландски именице
- Италијански говор
- Италијански 2-слог речи
- Италијански термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Италијански/ɛta
- Риме:Италијански/ɛta/2 слогова
- Италијански појмови изведени из Латински
- Италијански појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Италијански леме
- Италијански именице
- Италијански бројевне именице
- Италијански појмови изведени из Celtic језици
- Јапански индекс
- Јапански романизација
- Латински говор
- Латински појмови изведени из Celtic језици
- Латински леме
- Латински именице
- Латински појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- la:Vegetables
- Малајски термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Малајски/etə
- Риме:Малајски/tə
- Риме:Малајски/ə
- Риме:Малајски/ə/2 слогова
- Малајски royal terms
- Малајски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Малајски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Малајски леме
- Малајски именице
- Malay royal pronouns
- ms:Greek letter names
- Old Irish термини са ИПА изговором
- Old Irish verb form
- Пољски термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Пољски/ɛta
- Риме:Пољски/ɛta/2 слогова
- Пољски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Пољски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Пољски појмови изведени из Phoenician
- Пољски леме
- Пољски именице
- Polish feminine nouns
- Пољски noun form
- Португалски говор
- Португалски појмови изведени из Латински
- Португалски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Португалски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Португалски леме
- Португалски именице
- Румунски термини позајмљени од Француски
- Румунски појмови изведени из Француски
- Румунски леме
- Румунски именице
- Romanian countable nouns
- Српско-Хрватски термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Српско-Хрватски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Српско-Хрватски термини са ИПА изговором
- Српски леме
- Српски именице
- Српски feminine именице
- sh:Greek letter names
- Словачки термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Словачки појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Словачки термини са ИПА изговором
- Словачки леме
- Словачки именице
- sk:Greek letter names
- Шпански говор
- Шпански термини позајмљени од Антички Грчки
- Шпански појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Шпански појмови изведени из Пра-Семитски
- Шпански термини са ИПА изговором
- Шпански термини са хомофонима
- Шпански леме
- Шпански именице
- Missing Spanish noun forms
- Шведски појмови изведени из Латински
- Шведски појмови изведени из Антички Грчки
- Шведски леме
- Шведски именице
- Шведски slang
- Шведски глаголи
- Swedish weak verbs
- Шведски words suffixed with -a
- Језички код недостаје/deftempboiler
- Шведски words prefixed with be-
- Шведски термини са ИПА изговором
- sv:Greek letter names
- sv:Vegetables