Where does “bestial” come from?

bestial (Old French) comes from Latin bēstiālis, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

bestial (Old French): bestial (of or relating to a beast)

Definitions

  1. bestial (of or relating to a beast)

Ancestry of “bestial”, step by step

bestial traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin bēstiālis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbēstiālisbestial, beast-like
2Latin-ālis—
3Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

via Late Latin bestialis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinbestialis—

Words derived from “bestial”

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