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See also: Beet, bèèt, and be- -et

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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, 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)
  • → Maori: pīti
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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.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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