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Where does “bitumer” come from?

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

bitumer (French): to asphalt

Definitions

  1. to asphalt

Ancestry of “bitumer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbitumebitumen, asphalt, tar; street, sidewalk;...
2Latinbitūmen—
3Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
4Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “bitumer”

  • bitume
  • bitumed
  • bitumer
  • bitumier
  • bituminer
  • bitumage
  • bitume
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