pense-bête
French
noun
Definitions
- (informal) reminder
Etymology
Affix from French penser (think) + French bête (animal, beast, inept, stupid).
Origin
French
bête
Gloss
animal, beast, inept, stupid
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
獣
Emoji
🏇 🐋 🐙 🐟️ 🐠 🐡 🐬 🐳 🐻❄️ 🐾 🦈 🦐 🦑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pensare Italian
- abêtifier French
- bétail French
- bête French
- bête-puante French
- bêtement French
- bêtifier French
- bêtise French
- pensable French
- penser French
- penseur French
- pensar Ido
- beste Middle French
- penser Middle French
- bèt Haitian, Haitian Creole
- panse Haitian, Haitian Creole
- panse Mauritian Creole
- pènzieëre Limburgan, Limburger, Limburgish
- pensé Louisiana Creole French