Where does “betona” come from?

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

betona (Romanian): to concrete

Definitions

  1. to concrete

Ancestry of “betona”, step by step

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

Words derived from “betona

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥Every word from Latin -menEvery word from Latin bitūmen
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