Where does “betonare” come from?

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

betonare (Romanian): concreting

Definitions

  1. concreting

Ancestry of “betonare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianbetonato concrete
2Frenchbétonnerto concrete
3Frenchbétonconcrete; to drop
4Latinbitūmenmineral pitch, bitumen
5Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
6Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin bitūmen →