beta

(Inglese)

A beet.

Etimologia (Inglese)

Said by some sources to be of Celtic origin, but no obvious Celtic cognates exist; Ernout and Meillet adduce an apparently apocryphal Irish biatuis as cognate. Also compared are blitum (“spinach”), meta (“conic heap of stones”) (compared to the root's spindle form), and less likely, sense 2, with the seed vessel resembling the letter.

Concetti

barbabietola

bieta

bietola

beta

bieta da coste

sinonimi

bēta