Where does “tritoon” come from?
tritoon (English) comes from English pontoon, from Middle French ponton, from Old French ponton, from Latin pontō, from Latin pōns, from Latin fractus, from Latin frangere, from Latin frangō — to shine, shimmer.
tritoon (English): A type of boat with three parallel pontoons
Definitions
- A type of boat with three parallel pontoons
Ancestry of “tritoon”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pontoon | A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a... |
| 2 | Middle French | ponton | — |
| 3 | Old French | ponton | — |
| 4 | Latin | pontō | ferryboat |
| 5 | Latin | pōns | A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide |
| 6 | Latin | fractus | broken, shattered, having been broken;... |
| 7 | Latin | frangere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | frangō | to break, shatter |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰrēǵ- | to shine, shimmer |