Where does “bétonneuse” come from?

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

bétonneuse (French): cement mixer

Definitions

  1. cement mixer

Ancestry of “bétonneuse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbétonnerto concrete
2Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
3Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
4Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
5Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →