bastir

Borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”). Cognate with French bâtir, from the same Germanic source.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [basˈtiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

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

1. (transitive) to build; to construct

   Synonyms: construir, edificar

2. (transitive) to erect

   Synonyms: muntar, armar

• “bastir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bastir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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 Galician-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)
bastir (first-person singular present basto, first-person singular preterite bastim or basti, past participle bastido, reintegrationist norm)

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

• abastecer
• bastida
• bastidor
• bastimento

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bastir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “bast”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bastir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bastir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bastir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old French bastir.

bastir

1. to build; to construct
   • c. 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel 15:

     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.

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• French: bâtir

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bastir

1. to build; to construct

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bastīre.

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 Galician-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

• “bastir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bastir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025