Where does “bestial” come from?

Bestial comes from Old French bestial, from Latin bestialis, from Latin bestia meaning "beast" or "animal."

bestial (English): Beast-like; Cattle

Definitions

  1. Beast-like; Cattle

Ancestry of “bestial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbestialanimal of or pertaining to animals
2Old Frenchbestialbestial (of or relating to a beast)
3Latinbēstiālisbestial, beast-like
4Latin-ālis—
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “bestial”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin bēstiālis →
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