bastir

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bəsˈti/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /basˈtiɾ/
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

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

1. to build; to construct

• bastidor
• bastiment

• “bastir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bastir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “bastir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bastir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Portuguese bastir, borrowed from Old French bastir (“to build”).

• IPA^(key): /basˈtiɾ/

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

1. (archaic) to build
2. (archaic) to supply

• abastecer
• bastida
• bastidor
• bastimento

• “bastir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bast” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bastir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bastir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Old French bastir.

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.

• French: bâtir

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bastir

1. to build; to construct

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From Medieval Latin bastiō (“to build, sew”), borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).

bastir

1. to build; to construct

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• bastissement

• Middle French: bastir
  • French: bâtir
    • Haitian Creole: bati
• Norman: baïr
• Picard: bâti
• Walloon: bati (Liégeois), bâti (Charleroi)
• → Middle English: basten
  • English: baste

From Old Portuguese bastir, borrowed from Old French bastir (“to build”).

• Hyphenation: bas‧tir

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

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

   Synonym: acolchoar

3. (archaic) to build

• bastidor

From Occitan bastir (“to build”), borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).

• IPA^(key): /basˈtiɾ/ [basˈt̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: bas‧tir

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

1. (dated) to build
2. (dated) to provide

• “bastir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014