Catalan

Verb

bastir ‎(first-person singular present basteixo, past participle bastit)

1. to build; to construct

Conjugation

Middle French

Etymology

Old French bastir.

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     D'iceulx fauldroit bastir les murailles en les arrangeant en bonne symmetrie d'architecture, & mettant les plus grans au premiers rancz, et puis en taluant à doz d'asne arrangeant les moyens & finablement les petitz.

     From this, we would have to build the walls with a good symmetrical architecture, putting the biggest ones at the bottom, and then by mounting the back of an ass, the middle-sized one and finally the smallest ones.

Descendants

• French: bâtir

Occitan

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Old French

Etymology

Via Frankish or another Germanic language from Proto-Germanic *bastjan ‎(“join, mend together with bast”).

Verb

bastir

1. to build; to construct

Derived terms

• bastissement

Descendants

• French: bâtir
• Middle French: bastir

Portuguese

Etymology

From French bastir, variant of bâtir ‎(“to build”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bas‧tir

Verb

bastir ‎(first-person singular present indicative basto, past participle bastido)

1. to felt (a hat)
2. to pad, to quilt
3. (archaic) to build

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to pad): acolchoar

Derived terms

• bastidor