béton
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be.tɔ̃/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
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)
- concrete
- béton armé ― reinforced concrete
- bloc de béton ― cinderblock
- en béton ― (figuratively) rock-solid
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: бетон m (beton)
- → Dutch: beton
- → Esperanto: betono
- → Estonian: betoon
- → Finnish: betoni
- → German: Beton m
- → Greek: μπετόν n (betón)
- → Hungarian: beton
- → Luxembourgish: Bëtong m
- → Macedonian: бетон m (beton)
- → Malagasy: betro
- → Norwegian Bokmål: betong m
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: betong m
- → Persian: بتن (beton)
- → Portuguese: betão m
- → Romanian: beton n
- → Russian: бетон m (beton)
- → Serbo-Croatian: beton m / бетон m
- → Swedish: betong c
- → Turkish: beton
- → Vietnamese: bê tông
Etymology 2
Verlan form of tomber (“to fall, to drop”).
Verb
béton
- (Verlan) only used in laisse béton
Further reading
- “béton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.