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Where does “beton” come from?

beton (Czech) comes from French béton, from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

beton (Czech): concrete; an alcoholic cocktail, initalism of...

Definitions

  1. concrete; an alcoholic cocktail, initalism of...

Ancestry of “beton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
2Latinbitūmen—
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “beton”

  • železobeton
  • betonový
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