bâtiment
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French bastiment, from Old French bastiment (“act of building, fortification”), from bastir (“to build, make; to sew”), from Medieval Latin bastiō (“to build, construct; to weave, sew”), borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).
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Noun edit
bâtiment m (plural bâtiments)
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Further reading edit
- “bâtiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.