noun
Meaning 1
A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bestiary
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi/
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US: /ˈbɛstiˌɛɹi/
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noun
Meaning 2
A collection of various beasts, depicted in art, literature, or the like.
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noun
Meaning 3
A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: games, gaming
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noun
Meaning 4
a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: book
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast + -ary.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: حيوانات رامزة — A medieval treatise of animals
- Basque: bestiario — A medieval treatise of animals
- Belarusian: бестыярыюм (bjestyjaryjum) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Bulgarian: бестиарий (bestiarij) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Catalan: bestiari — A medieval treatise of animals
- Czech: bestiář — A medieval treatise of animals
- Danish: bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Dutch: bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Esperanto: bestarlibro — A medieval treatise of animals
- Finnish: bestiaari — A medieval treatise of animals
- Finnish: eläinkirja — A medieval treatise of animals
- French: bestiaire — A medieval treatise of animals
- German: Bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Hebrew: ספר חיות — A medieval treatise of animals
- Hebrew: בסטיארי — A medieval treatise of animals
- Ido: bestiario — A medieval treatise of animals
- Italian: bestiario — A medieval treatise of animals
- Japanese: 動物寓意譚 — A medieval treatise of animals
- Korean: 베스티아리 (beseutiari) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Latin: bēstiārium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Macedonian: бестија́р (bestijár) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Norwegian: bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Polish: bestiariusz — A medieval treatise of animals
- Polish: bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Portuguese: bestiário — A medieval treatise of animals
- Romanian: bestiar — A medieval treatise of animals
- Russian: бестиа́рий (bestiárij) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Slovene: bestiarij — A medieval treatise of animals
- Spanish: bestiario — A medieval treatise of animals
- Swedish: bestiarium — A medieval treatise of animals
- Ukrainian: бестіа́рій (bestiárij) — A medieval treatise of animals
- Welsh: bwystori — A medieval treatise of animals
- Welsh: bwystawr — A medieval treatise of animals
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