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Where does “beton” come from?

beton (Polish) comes from Latin bitūmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

beton (Polish): concrete; the most conservative fraction within...

Definitions

  1. concrete; the most conservative fraction within...

Ancestry of “beton”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbitūmen—
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “beton”

  • betonowy
  • żelazobeton
  • żelbet
  • betonować
  • żelbetowy
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