béton
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French betun, from Vulgar Latin *bittūmen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume, a borrowing from Latin.
Noun
béton m (plural bétons)
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Dutch: beton
- → Estonian: betoon
- → Finnish: betoni
- → German: Beton m
- → Greek: μπετόν n (betón)
- → Esperanto: betono
- → Hungarian: beton
- → Luxembourgish: Bëtong m
- → Macedonian: бетон m (beton)
- → Malagasy: betro
- Norwegian Bokmål: betong m
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: betong m
- → Portuguese: betão m
- → Romanian: beton n
- → Russian: бетон m (beton)
- Serbo-Croatian: beton m / бетон m
- → Swedish: betong c
- → Turkish: beton
- → Persian: بتن (beton)
- → Vietnamese: bê tông
Etymology 2
Verlan form of tomber (“to fall, to drop”).
Verb
béton
Usage notes
- This verb is only used in the infinitive, and almost exclusively as part of the phrase laisse béton, which can be translated as “drop it” or “forget it”.
Further reading
- “béton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.