Ido-English Dictionary

baz-o: base: lowest part of anything, foundation, bottom, foot; (fig.) basis, foundation, grounds; (chem.) base; -ala, -atra: basal, basic; -ajo: something which is basic; basement; -lineo: (math.) base-line; arko- -o: springing (of an arch); sen- -a: baseless; -o-krusto: (cook.) under crust; Ex.: La bazo di monto, di piedestalo, di triangulo, di sistemo, di yusteso, di metalo. — DEFIRS

bazalt-o:(geol.) basalt. — DEFIRS

bazar-o: baza(a)r. — DEFIRS

bazil-o:(bot.) sweet-basil (Ocimum basilicum). — DEFIRS

bazilik-o:(arch.) basilica. — DEFIRS

bazilik-veino:(anat.) basilic vein. — DEF

bazilisk-o:(myth., zool.) basilisk. — DEFI

be-ar:(intr.) to open the mouth, to gape (fig.) to yawn; spektadar -ante: to look gapingly. Def.: Apertar la boko, anke en figurala senco »beanta truo«; III-386. — F

beat-a: blissful, blessed; (iron.) sanctimonious; -eso: (state) bliss; (rel.) beatitude. — DeFIRSL

beatifik-ar*:(tr., Cath., rel.) to beatify. — DEFIRS

bechik-a:(med.) bechic, pectoral: cough relieving. — eFIS

bed-o:(agri., hort.) bed; floro- -o: flower-b.; sterko- -o: hot bed, forcing-bed; gazon- -o: grass--plot. — DE

bedel-o: beadle: apparitor; usher. Def.: La nomo di ta qua preiras o sequas la procesioni (generale religiala); VII-43. — DEFIRS

Beduin(ul)o: a Bedouin. — DEFIRS

begin-o: beguine: a kind of nun in the Netherlands; -kofio: b. cap. — DeFIRS

begoni-o:(bot.) begonia. — DEFIRS

bek-o: beak: bill of a bird; (tech.) beak, spout (of a vessel); -edo: a beakful; -agar, -pikar: to peck (at); -agado: pecking; -agar reciproke: to peck at each other; -forma: beak formed; en- -igar, -nutrar: to feed (young birds, etc.). — EFIS

bekafik-o:(orni.) beccafico, garden warbler, fig-eater (Sylvia hortensis). — DEFIS

bekas-o:(orni.) woodcock (Scolopax rusticola); -eto: snipe (Scolopax gallinula). — DEFIRS

bel-a: beautiful, fine, handsome; -eta, -ata: pretty, rather handsome; -(ul)o: a handsome person; -ete: prettily; -ino: a belle; -ajo: a b. object; -eso: (quality) beauty; -et- -eso: prettiness; -acho: fop, cox-comb, insipid beauty; -igar: to beautify, embellish; -eskar: to become, grow b.; -a stroko: a lucky, fine stroke, hit or happening; lo bela: The Beautiful. Ant.: leda —

beladon-o:(bot., med.) belladonna (Atropa belladona). — DEFIRS

belemnit-o:(fossil.) belemnite. — DEFIRS

belveder-o:(arch.) belvedere. DEFIR

bemol-o*:(mus.) flat. — FIRS

bend-o: bank: long, narrow piece of cloth, paper, metal, etc., strip, stripe, streak; fillet (for head), (hat) band; -izar: to bind up, place a band on; sen- -igar: to take off the band, unband; agro- -o: a strip of field; bordo- -o: piping, welt (of cloth); ledro- -o: strip, slip, band of leather; plat- -o: (arch.) platband; -o-segilo: b. saw; (cf. strio). Def.: Surfaco limitizita per du linei paralela; IV - 463. Ex. La standardo di Usa kontenas bendi (alterne reda, blanka), ne strii. — DeFIRS

»benedicite«: grace (before meals). — DFIS

benedik-ar:(tr.) to bless, pronounce a benediction on. — DEFIS

benediktan-o*: Benedictine (monk or nun); kuvento di -i: B. convent. — DEFIRS

benefic-o:(eccl.) benefice, living; reprezento- -o: (theat.) benefit performance (where the proceeds are given to some particular person or purpose); -iero: beneficiary: holder of a benfice; recipient of the profits from a benefit performance. — DEFIRS

Bengal-ucel-o*:(orni.) Bengal finch.

benigna: benign: kind, morally good; mild (of medicines, diseases). — DEFIS

benk-o: bench, long seat, settle, form; (in boats) thwart; -o-veturo: wagonette: wagon with long sets. Def.: Sidilo longa (ligna ex.) kun o sen dors-apogilo; II-647. — DEFIRS

benzin-o: benzine, benzene; -motoro: b. motor. — DEFIRS

benzo-o:(bot.) benzoin; resin from the tree Styrax benzoin. — DEFIRS

benzoat-o*: benzoate (a salt); -acido: aenzoic acid. — DEF

benzol-o*: benzol(e). — DEFIRS

bequadr-o*:(mus.) natural. — FIRS

ber-o: berry; -atra: bacciform, berry-like; -port-anta, -if-anta: bacciferous, berry producing; vit- -o: grape; sika vit- -o: raisin; frangul- -o: alder-berry; muskat- -o: muscatel grapes. — DE

Berberi-a, -ala: of, relating to Barbary; Berber-o: a Berber. — DEFIRS