Where does “béton” come from?

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

béton (French): concrete; to drop

Definitions

  1. concrete; to drop

Ancestry of “béton”, step by step

béton traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin bitūmen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

via Old French betun

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbetun—

Words derived from “béton”

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