beta
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Ancient Greek: βῆτα | ||
Wikipedia article on beta |
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta). Dubleti of beth.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: bēʹtə, MFA(ključ): /ˈbiːtə/
- (US) enPR: bāʹtə, MFA(ključ): /ˈbeɪtə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rime: -iːtə, -eɪtə
- (UK) Homophone: beater (non-rhotic accents)
- (US) Homophone: baiter (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
beta (plural betas)
- The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
- Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.
- (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
- (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
- The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.
- (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
- 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans (page 107)
- He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.
- 2015 februar 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica[1]:
- Lua greška in Modul:languages/errorGetBy at line 14: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the first parameter; the value "<strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error" id="mw-scribunto-error-51fddb02">Script error: The function "first_lang" does not exist.</span></strong>" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages)..
- 2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans (page 107)
- (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
- (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
- (aviation) Sideslip angle.
- (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
- Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
- (slang, manosphere, masculism) Script error: The function "show_from" does not exist. beta male., a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), →ISBN 9781459228252, unnumbered page:
- “I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”
- 2010, L. A. Banks, "Dog Tired (of the Drama!)", in Blood Lite II: Overbite (ed. Kevin J. Anderson), Gallery Books (2010), →ISBN 9781439187654, page 121:
- “They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]
- 2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca (2010), →ISBN 9781402237577, page 24:
- She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.
- 2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:
- Lua greška in Modul:languages/errorGetBy at line 14: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the first parameter; the value "<strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error" id="mw-scribunto-error-51fddb02">Script error: The function "first_lang" does not exist.</span></strong>" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages)..
- 2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die[2]:
- Lua greška in Modul:languages/errorGetBy at line 14: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the first parameter; the value "<strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error" id="mw-scribunto-error-51fddb02">Script error: The function "first_lang" does not exist.</span></strong>" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages)..
- 2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin (2006), →ISBN 9781459228252, unnumbered page:
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:
- Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
- 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 99:
- In ASD, the beta also functions as a contrast, as Yuri is assumed to be a beta before his first heat reveals his omega status.
- 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 119:
- Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.
- 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
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Adjective
beta (not comparable)
- Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.
- Designates the second in an order of precedence.
- (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
- (of a person, object or action) associated with the beta male/female archetype.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
beta
- (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.
- (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [3]
- My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.
- 2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN 9780786426409, page 180,
- Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.
- 2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative [4]
- The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.
- 2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [5]
- I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.
- 1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative [3]
Anagrams
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
From Classical Malay بيتا (beta, “I”).
Pronoun
beta
- I first-person singular pronoun
Alternative forms
References
Asturian
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betes)
- beta (Greek letter)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
Lua greška in Modul:ca-headword at line 104: attempt to call field 'add_links_to_multiword_term' (a nil value).
Etymology 2
Noun
Lua greška in Modul:ca-headword at line 104: attempt to call field 'add_links_to_multiword_term' (a nil value).
Dodatna literatura
- “beta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Faroese
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta n (genitive singular beta, plural betu)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
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n1 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
accusative | beta | betað | betu, betur | betuni |
dative | beta | betanum | betum | betunum |
genitive | beta | betans | betna | betnanna |
Derived terms
Galician
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta m (plural betas)
- beta (Greek letter)
Icelandic
Noun
beta n (genitive singular alfa, no plural)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latinski bēta, from Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural #)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latinski bēta (“beet”), from Lua greška in Modul:languages at line 1276: attempt to index field 'type' (a nil value)..
Noun
beta f (plural bete)
Anagrams
Romanization
beta
Etymology 1
Said by some sources to be of Lua greška in Modul:languages at line 1276: attempt to index field 'type' (a nil value). origin,[1][2] but no obvious Celtic cognates exist. 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.
Noun
beta
- A beet.
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bēta | bētae |
Genitive | bētae | bētārum |
Dative | bētae | bētīs |
Accusative | bētam | bētās |
Ablative | bētā | bētīs |
Vocative | bēta | bētae |
Descendants
- Catalan: bleda (partially), bleda-rave
- Danski: bede
- Estonian: peet
- Middle Dutch: bete
- Holandski: biete
- Old English: bēte
- Engleski: beet
- Francuski: bette, betterave, blette (partially)
- Middle Low German: bete
- Nemački: Bete
- Irski: biatas
- Italijanski: bieta (partially), bietola
- Latvian: biete
- Norwegian Bokmål: bete
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bete
- Norman: betterave
- Old Frisian: bete
- Old High German: bieza
- Sicilian: jiti (Southern East of Sicily) (it is probably pluralia tantum but preceded by definite article "a")
- Švedski: beta
Etymology 2
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta
- The Greek letter beta.
References
- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “beta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- beta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Šablon:R:es:Roberts:2014
- Berti-Pichat (1866)
- Baxter (1837)
- Poiret (1827)
- von Lippmann (1925)
- Geschwind & Sellier (1902)
- Pabst (1887)
- Becker-Dillengen (1928)
- Biancardi, Panella & Lewellen (2011): Beta maritima: The Origin of Beets
- ↑ Šablon:R:OED
- ↑ “beet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2024.
Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) MFA(ključ): /betə/
- (Riau-Lingga) MFA(ključ): /beta/
- Rime: -etə, -tə, -ə
Etymology 1
From Court Malay, Beta.
Pronoun
- Lua greška in package.lua at line 80: module 'Modul:labels/data/lang/ms' not found. I, me, my (exclusive use in royalty, subject is either king or queen)
See also
Etymology 2
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
Lua greška in Modul:ms-headword at line 6: attempt to call field 'findBestScript' (a nil value).
- beta (second letter of the Greek alphabet)
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
beta
- treće lice množine prezenta subjunctive relative of is
- Šablon:RQ:sga-gloss
sga
—Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn., Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. Šablon:m-g), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. Šablon:m-g).
- Šablon:RQ:sga-gloss
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Pozajmljeno od Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta), from Phoenician 𐤁 (b /bēt/).
Noun
beta f
- beta Galicijski
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
beta m inan
- genitiva/akuzativa jednine of bet
Dodatna literatura
- beta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- beta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Etymology 1
From Latinski beta, from Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beta (all senses)
Etymology 2
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
- beet (plant)
Rumunski
Etymology
Noun
beta m (plural beta)
- beta (Greek letter)
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
Noun
Lua greška in Modul:sh-headword at line 7: attempt to call field 'findBestScript' (a nil value).
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta f (genitive singular bety, nominative plural bety, genitive plural biet, declension pattern of žena) OR
beta n
- beta (Greek letter)
Usage notes
When used in the neuter gender, the word is not declined.
Declension
References
- beta in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Etymology
From Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta) ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”).
Pronunciation
Noun
beta f (plural betas)
Derived terms
Dodatna literatura
- “beta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Etymology 1
Latinski bēta, from Antički Grčki βῆτα (bêta).
Noun
beta n or c
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betat | beta | betan |
Genitive | betas | betats | betas | betans |
Declension of beta | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betan | betor | betorna |
Genitive | betas | betans | betors | betornas |
Verb
beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to test software prior to release
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Latinski bēta (“beet”).
Noun
beta c
Declension
Declension of beta | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | beta | betan | betor | betorna |
Genitive | betas | betans | betors | betornas |
Etymology 3
Verb
beta (present betar, preterite betade, supine betat, imperative beta)
- to graze; to eat grass; to feed on growing herbage.
Conjugation
See also
Etymology 4
Clipping of betaga; Lua greška in Modul:compound at line 262: attempt to call field 'getNonEtymological' (a nil value)..
Pronunciation
Verb
- to steal