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
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “beton”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →