Where does “bestiaire” come from?

bestiaire (French) comes from Old French bestiaire, from Medieval Latin bestiarium, from Latin bēstia — a beast.

bestiaire (French): bestiary; beastmaster

Definitions

  1. bestiary; beastmaster

Ancestry of “bestiaire”, step by step

bestiaire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French bestiaire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbestiairebestiary
2Medieval Latinbestiariumbestiary; nominative neuter singular of...
3Latinbēstiaa beast

via Latin bēstiārius

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbēstiāriusone who fights with wild beasts in the public spectacles, a beast-fighter
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “bestiaire”

Every word from Latin bēstia →Every word from Medieval Latin bestiarium →Every word from Old French bestiaire →