Where does “betono” come from?

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

betono (Esperanto): concrete

Definitions

  1. concrete

Ancestry of “betono”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
2Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →