Latin

Alternative forms

• bellua

Noun

bēlua f ‎(genitive bēluae); first declension

1. (wild) beast, monster
2. brute

Inflection

First declension.

Synonyms

• (beast): bēstia

Derived terms

Descendants

• French: belluaire
• Italian: belva
• Portuguese: beluaria

References

• belua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• belua in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “belua”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.